Saturday 16 July 2011

Singapore Botanical Gardens

We got to the Botanical Gardens at 9 am but it was already busy. It opens at 5am. I think this must be for joggers and Tai Chi classes of which there were many in progress. There were also a number of school groups, either marching about or sitting round a teacher being taught about plants. The Gardens are quite large and we walked around for 2 hours and covered maybe 25% of it. There is a lot of garden apart from the orchid bit. 





Here is an example.

















And this is one of their named hybrids.













And a lovely palm.

1 comment:

  1. There's certainly something to be said for having children abroad!!! Rosie

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