Showing posts with label Botanic Gardens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Botanic Gardens. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Monitor Lizard at The Singapore Botanic Garden

Monitor Lizard that looked like Komodo Dragon found in Singapore Botanic Garden. There are quite a number of times, strolling in the garden.  They wont attack unless provoked. So just stand a distance away from them.
 

Friday, January 6, 2017

Singapore Botanic Garden

Been a long time since I last visited the Botanic Garden. But this time is different cause the Botanic Garden was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

 



Was here with my siblings and we had great time taking photos and strolling in the garden.

Great to see the white swans again but could not find the lone black swan that we saw the last time.



 Was surprised to see several huge catfish in the pond. Dont remember seeing such huge catfish during our last visit. Will post the video of the huge catfish.



 

The famous tembusu tree (it was featured in our S$5 note).

Beautiful garden, nice to have picnic here too. Look out for several beautiful sculptures around the garden. Can view my previous post for other sculptures too.

The sundial in the sundial garden is very meaningful to me and my siblings. When we were toddlers, my parents took photo of us at this very same spot. After 50 years, we positioned outselves exactly as when we took the photo 50 years ago. It was really beautiful and brought back fond memories. Did not post the photo here due to privacy.

The bandstand was favourite with wedding photos, I took my wedding photo here too.

Lots of squirrels in the garden, I managed to take a good photo of one of them.

Spotted two very huge monitor lizard at the Tembusu Tree and a smaller one at one of the tree. Will post the video of the two huge lizards.

There's a National Orchid Garden at the Botanic Garden, I am not going to post here cause there's simply too many beautiful flowers here but you can view my previous post on the flowers in Botanic Garden.

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Singapore Botanic Garden - Celebrity Garden


Inside the Orchid Garden (admission fee of S$5 is required, S$1 students, senior citizens, free for children (below 12 years), is also the celebrity garden. The orchid species were specially breed and named after visiting royals and celebrities.

Princess Diana was supposed to visit Singapore but was not so cause of her sudden death. The orchid was specially breed and named after her for her visit.


Very famous South Korean Actor Bae Yong Jun had orchids named after him too.


Our very own famous local singer Stefanie Sun, the orchid really suit her.



There are more orchids named after celebrity and royals.

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Singapore Botanic Garden - Cool House


This is the first time I visited the cool house in Botanic Garden. The best part was it was airconditioned hahaha.


Love how the climbers climbed its way around.



Looked so misty and eerie in here - as if some kind of animal will suddenly jumped out of the bushes hahaha.


Different types of carnivorous plants.

We were so excited to find the insect eating plants but they looked so small.

Friday, January 13, 2012

Skywatch Friday - Going bananas


Having some good shots at plants with the sky in the background.




Saw so many banana plants in the banana gallery.

Wow, this huge bunch of bananas can feed a lot of people hahaha.

Not sure what plant is this but sure looked so cute.

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