My World Tuesday - Hort Park 8 - Plant Plus

This is a lovely place to get all your gardening stuff and plants.
Oh I love this photo of the pitcher plant. My little niece took some photos of it too and I began my science lessons with her by telling her all about the pitcher plant...lol.

All these pitcher plants are for sale.


More plants for sale.

Bonsai Plants

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Hort Park 7 - Hydroponics

There is a small hydroponic garden in Singapore Hort Park. It is popular with kids.

Hydroponics is a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions, in water, without soil.

Hort Park 6 - Butterfly Garden

It is so rush for little niece and me, the butterfly garden was close to closing time. And we are lucky to be allowed in as the last guests...lol. So quickly, we snap snap snap......

Just managed to get a few snapshots of the cocoons.....

and little niece spotted the huge butterfly above me and I zoom on it and we were then have to hurry out of the garden...sigh.....

Hort Park 5 - Tadpoles

This is very good educational pond for the kids. My little niece is so excited about the many eggs and tadpoles we saw at this pond.

The many bubbles you see in the ponds are eggs. Did you spot the tadpole(circled in red) in the above photo?

You have to look carefully for the lone tadpole which just wriggled a little bit...lol

Skywatch Friday - Hort Park 4 - Beautiful Tree

Spotted this big and beautiful tree in Hort Park. Hort Park is a very huge park that has gardening-related, recreational, educational, research and retail activities . You can read more about Hort Park from National Park's website.



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Hort Park 3 - Wall Planters

Hort Park is so huge, you need good walking shoes to explore the park.

Saw these tall green planters where they grew so many different plants vertically.

Hort Park 2 - Sculptures

Some of the sculptures I saw in Hort Park. There are more but there are too many people there for me to spot more.



This must be the tin man in the story of Wizard of Oz

And I found the lion but I missed the scarecrow and dorothy, too many people in the park for me to spot them.

My World Tuesday - Hort Park 1

Today, I will begin my series of posting of plants and flowers in Hort Park.

Some of the landscapes I saw inside Hort Park.

Oh I love these dragons.

Award winning designs, I love how they arranged the flowers at the side to make a pattern just like flower arrangements.

Not sure if this is a swimming pool or just for display, I could not see any sign beside it or I might have missed seeing any description of it.

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Hort Park - Playgrounds

At the Hort Park, besides being a park filled with many beautiful flowers and plants, there are space for a playground for the kids.

The kids have a wonderful time playing with them.

Hort Park - Clean and Clean Campaign Exhibition

At the clean and green campaign at Hort Park, there's an exhibition of the then and now of Singapore.

It brought back memories of the time when I was younger, living in a not so clean environment. But now everything is so organised and clean.



An example of the street hawker back then in the 60s, the utensils they used are so old and discoloured but now hawkers will be fined or suspended if their stalls are unclean.

Now the sweeper's job are easier and high tech, they are help with machines and make it more attractive so that people will want to work as sweeper.

Award

It is so lovely to be remembered by a best friend half a planet away. She is CC of Lacenribbonroses and she presented me with a Gorgeous Blogger Award. Thank you so much CC and sorry for taking so long to post about this award.

For the award, I am to tell 6 things about myself and to pass the award on to 6 more people.

1. I love travelling and taking lots of photos.
2. Love collecting unique things like cocktail stirrers, key chains, empty boxes with beautiful patterns/pictures, etc

3. Enjoyed cooking but hate the washing up part.

4. My favourite colour is purple.

5. Have a best friend for more than 40 years and our friendship is still going very strong. :)

6. Lastly, my favourite fruit is durian, the king of fruits.

Skywatch Friday - Birds

A simple photo of skywatch today, showing some birds circling above me. Not sure what type of birds are they, they are actually very far from me but I zoomed on them while photographing them.

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Hort Park - Part 4 - Green and Clean Campaign Part 4

A special corner for kids who are too young to join the other games at the campaign.

Kids love drawings and colourings.

My little niece decided to have a tattoo and no, it is not a permanent one, just a stick on and removable tattoo for kids.

Hort Park - Clean and Green Campaign - Part 3

Also at the Clean and Green Campaign are other educational programmes and games.

There's a lot of people queuing to play games, one reason being they get free gifts...lol. I am the lazy sort, I dont like to queue and I prefer taking photos...hehehe

My World Tuesday - Hort Park - Clean and Green Campaign (Part 2)

Everyone so interested and curious with this vending machine at the exhibition of Clean and Green Campaign 2010 held at Hort Park. No, it is not a drinks or food vending machine, it is a reverse vending machine for recycled materials. We just feed the machine with recycled materials and the machine will automatically separate it to plastic, can or glass.

And no, I did not try out the machine, there's a long queue of people queuing to try the machine and I dont like long queue.

A short video showing the company's representative explaining how the machine works.

Another short video of curious onlookers . I am curious about the machine too cause this is the first time we see this machine in Singapore although other countries are already using it.

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Clean and Green Singapore Song

Oh I love this song so much so does my little niece.

Hort Park - Pledge to Go Green

I am back to blogging but need time to retun back to my normal blogging and blog visiting...lol. Will be very busy these two months with so many programmes and celebrations going on.

Visited the Hort Park during the weekend for the Clean and Green Singapore 2010. It is so much fun and I took the green pledge today towards a cleaner and greener Singapore.

We had our little thumbs painted with either green or yellow to take the pledge and the patterns of our thumbprints looked like a tree.

I took a short video of this lady who also took the pledge.

It is so educating and fun and I have lots of photos coming up and my favourite are the flowers that I saw in Hort Park and having fun with my little niece. I am so glad she share my interests in taking photos of flowers.

Taking A Rest

SORRY NO BLOGGING FOR AWHILE...........

WILL RETURN TO BLOGGING AS SOON AS I FIND TIME.

WONT BE ABLE TO GO BLOG VISITING...........SO SORRY.......