DELONIX REGIA

One of my favourite trees, the Flame of the Forest / Red Flame at Bay East flowered so amazingly. If the crown was any fuller, the flowering of its vermilion flowers would have been even more breathtaking.

this tree is on fire!

PSEUDOGYNOXYS CHENOPODIODES

Since my HortPark days, I have not seen this vibrant Mexican Flame Vine that remains to be one of my favourite climbers. I am definitely very glad that I now have them growing on the trellises at a prominent place of the garden. In time to come, I am certain they would be stunning to greet the visitors of the garden.

BRACHYCHITON ACERIFOLIUS

The Illawara Flame Tree (Family: Malvaceae) with acer-like leaves in the background recently shed all its leaves to take on a fiery red colour. The flowering wasn't very impressive, unlike how it would look in its native habitat., but the clusters of small red flowers do look amazing.

BAY EAST

Today's weather - sunny

From a distance, I saw a piece of nature's art - the beautiful bare branches of the Garcinia cowa. In fact, I could almost imagine the tree in an upside down position with the bare branches as the root system of a tree.

Over at the Visitor's Centre, the clumps of Ixora javanica (yellow) which we planted months ago were rewarding me with its beautiful umbel of yellow tubular flowers.


Recently, it was also the blooming season for the Flame of the Forest trees. Islandwide, the Delonix regia trees were drawing its admirer's attention to its many vibrant, scarlet flowers. Beside this car park were the remnant trees salvaged from the development. However, I was told they looked even more magnificent in their hey days. I guess I can only imagine the spectacular sight these trees provide to the area.

GLORIOSA SUPERBA

I was doing my gardening the other day and when I looked up, I was greeted by this open flower of the Gloria Lily, Tiger Claw or Flame Lily (Family: Liliaceae). I didn't see it coming, otherwise I would have kept a constant lookout for its developing floral bud.

I bought the rhizomes of this plant some months ago and grew it for as long a time. Every time it grew to a certain height, I would accidentally damage or break off the flimsy, soft and herbaceous stem and never had the chance to see it bloom in my hands. That is, until now. Just recently, I had to tease the leafy tendrils from the Hamelia patens and drape the long growth onto a hook on the wall to support it. I guess it paid off.

Now there is another developing floral bud and I am keeping vigil to see how many flowers it can produce from this single stem alone.

HORTPARK 4

I love this captivating climber Mexican Flame Vine that I planted at the Home Garden swing and at the Car Park Garden's trellis and was pleasantly surprised to see the latter putting out its best display for all to see. I certainly hope it would gain some popularity in other gardens.


The Devil's Tree or Indian Pulai Tree (scientific name: Alstonia scholaris) must have flowered spectacularly recently, considering the amount of pendulous seed pods that were hanging on the tree.


And I can never forget this Flame of the Forest or Red Flame tree (scientific name: Delonix regia) because I deliberately and painstakingly selected it, with the intention of making it the symbolic representation of HortPark. But I never got to or achieved that stage. All I did was planting out a few of them at Floral Walk and Car Park Garden and the remaining were planted at the Floral Stitches where the display plots were. This particular tree at the Car Park Garden flowered recently and it bewildered me why the terminal branches with flowers were pruned off just days before?


Up at the Floral Walk, I noticed the grafted Wrightia dubia was much taller than before and it was still flowering. I am glad I planted these strikingly beautiful plants along the walkway for others to appreciate them.


If not for the Alstonia photos, this would be a post entirely dedicated to orange or peach coloured flowering plants.