LANDSCAPE

Amongst the shades of green, three colours stand out - pink, orange and yellow, to provide an interesting composition.

MANDARIN GALLERY

Every year I look forward to see the Chrysanthemum cladded zodiac animals on display in front of Mandarin Gallery but this year they broke the tradition.

I was kind of disappointed and no amount of pink horses could save the day.

TABEBUIA ROSEA

I hesitated for a long time before finally deciding to put this up because the flowering Tecomas are a relatively common sight in our urban landscapes.

Anyway, I am doing it now because I remembered lots of visitors and staff pausing in their tracks when they emerged from the Bayfront MRT exit and whipped out their cameras of camera phones to capture this magnificent phenomenon of the flowering Tecomas on a daily basis from end July to August. This is the welcome greeting one received upon stepping foot into the garden. What is notable was also the fact that the flowers bloomed in the form of various shades of pink and a white.

HUB (ROSE)

Today's weather - sunny

This pink Arundina was planted at the Indian Garden but mine at home finally sent out a new shoot after so many months of growing it since I bought it at last year's World Orchid Conference in Nov 11. To me, I am not as amazed by this colour variety then the more common white-purple A. graminifolia (common name: Bamboo Orchid).


Back to this post, I am actually posting the beautiful plants at the Hub, which is also known as the rose. It is no coincidence that the flowers have a pink tinge or shade. These spectacular plants are namely as follows:

• Plumeria 'Dwarf Singapore Pink'
• Ceiba speciosa (common name: Silk Floss Tree)
• Rondeletia leucophylla or Arachnothryx leucophylla (common name: Panama Rose)
• Plumeria rubra variegated
• Vinca rosea or Catharanthus roseus (common name: Periwinkle)