Sentosa Flower Show at Palawan Beach Part 4 - Landscape

Continuing from yesterday's post on Sentosa Flower Show. Besides flowers and the recyle exhibition, there's a landscape show at Palawan Beach too.
This is supposed to be the shape of a turtle.

There are many plants in shape of animals here, like the beaver, penguin, etc.

These plants looked so cute and pretty, sorry dont know what plants are these. I have never see these before.

Please return tomorrow for skywatch, it comes with a video of the beach. :)

Changi Boardwalk Part 3-The walk

Continued from my previous post on the Boardwalk.

It is a long walk for me.

Well, I get to stop and look at some flowers and take some rest.

I guess we are too noisy, we frightened the cat.

On the way to the kelong walk. The kelong walk is the best spot to take sunrise and sunset photos.

Did you spot the bride walking for a photo shoot, I featured her in my earlier post. The pavilion is the best spot for fishing in the below photo.

Lots of greenery over here. Nice to be here with family just to relax and destress.

Please return for more photo of Changi BoardWalk.

To be continued.....

Plants

Took these photos at my brother's balconey. The cactus looked so cute, like a husband and wife plants.

Not sure what plant is this.

Singapore Botanic Garden-National Orchid Gardens

This will be my last posting on Singapore Botanic Gardens. For more photos on plants, flowers and cactus, you can view them at my flower blog. I will post them there once I do some reseach on the names of the flowers, trees, etc. I am only an admirer of flowers and amazing trees so am not familiar with their names. :)

Admission to Singapore Botanic Garden is free but admission to its Orchid Garden is S$5.00. It is very worth the money cause there are so many beautiful and unique orchids in the garden.

There is also a VIP garden too where orchids are breed and named after VIP of other countries. I saw many VIP orchids but I failed to find those named after Princess Diana and First Lady of USA, Laura Bush, but I did snap the posters of their orchids. Will post them in my flower blog.

I am so delighted with the beautiful orchids. Their colours and their shapes are so eye catching.

I have yet to find out the names of the above orchids. I still have many photos of beautiful orchids but I have yet to sort them out.

It is a happy day for me at botanic garden. I took a lot of photos, spend quality time at the gardens and learn a lot about the orchids and the amazing trees and not forgetting about those sculptures and my close encounter with the swans. :)

Singapore Botanic Garden-Passing of Knowledge Scultpure

This sculpture is located in the Sun Garden in the Singapore Botanic Gardens where all the cactus are. I like this sculpture very much because I find it very meaningful. The sculpture is known as Passing of Knowledge. It really is like a father passing his knowledge to his child.

Beside this sculpture, there are many cactus plants in this Sun Garden. Geez, I really beginning to like the Botanic Garden, it changes so much since my last visit with my young sons. But my sons are now all grown up, and just like the name of the sculpture, we as parents had passed our knowledge to them. :)

The Passing of Knowledge sculpture (2003) by local sculptor Victor Tan Wee Tar
(Source:http://www.sbg.org.sg/tanglincore/sungarden.asp)

Canon Ball Trees

I am glad it did not rain on christmas eve. We enjoyed our BBQ that day. Well, we went to the beach for a stroll before the BBQ started and I saw this strange looking tree. Their fruits looked like coconuts but they are not. These are very tall trees and known as Canon Ball Trees or Lecythidaceae .

The flowers have a wonderful smell and can be used to scent perfumes and cosmetics

The fruits are edible and are occasionally eaten, but the smell of the white flesh discourages most people from trying them. The hard shells of the fruit are sometimes used as containers