FLOWER DOME - NURSERY RHYMES

After the tulips display on fairy tales, it was followed by the nursery rhymes and here I am showing some of the plants shown in the display. 

Hydrangea cultivar

Hydrangea cultivar

Digitalis (Foxglove)

Pelargonium cultivar

Pelargonium cultivar

butterfly made of artificial flowers

Dahlia cultivar

Dahlia cultivar

Dahlia cultivar

Pelargonium

Pelargonium

Jacobaea maritima 'Silver Dust' (Dusty Miller)

Synonym: Senecio bicolor subsp. cineraria, Cineraria maritima

Campanula (Bellflower)

Rosa cultivar (Rose)

Aquilegia (Columbine Flower)

FLOWER DOME - AUSTRALIA AND SOUTH AMERICA

After the Baobab Village are the Australian and South American gardens stops, although most of the plant photos shown here are from the former:

• Anigozanthos cultivar (Common Name: Kangaroo Paw; Family: Haemodoraceae)
• Callistemon (Common Name: Crimson Bottlebrush; Family: Myrtaceae)
• Xanthorrhoea australis (Common Name: Grass Tree; Family: Xanthorrhoeaceae)
• Jacobaea maritima (Synonym: Senecio cineraria, Senecio maritimus; Common Name: Silver Ragwort, Dusty Miller; Family: Asteraceae / Compositae)
• Nicotiana cultivar (Family: Solanaceae)
• Araucaria araucana (Common Name: Monkey Puzzle Tree; Family: Araucariaceae)
• Grevillea brevifolia graft (Common Name: Cobberas Grevillea; Family: Proteaceae) 

FLOWER DOME - ENTRANCE PATHWAYS

Visitors are greeted with an array of flowers from the entire colour palette on the screens upon entering the Flower Dome. 

Upon turning right towards the Baobab Village, there are lots of beautiful flowering plants at eye level because of the raised planters. That is one of the best ways of displaying plants for visitors to be able to see the plants and flowers up close instead of having to bend or squat down if they are planted at ground level.

The numerous Gazania cutlivars, Adenium (Family: Apocynaceae) and yellow flower Senecio macroglossus (Family: Asteraceae / Compositae) are what caught my eye.

COOL PLANTS

This range of cool plants have it going for them. Ranging from Dianthus 'Silver Star', Fuchsia, Nepenthes, Cyclamen, Pelargonium, variegated Senecio macroglossus etc, they are a group of plants that demand a cold treatment with a lower ambient temperature or drop in temperature for optimum growth and flowering.

By the way, the highland Nepenthes produced inflorescences of male flowers. Outdoors, the tall grasses, Cleome hassleriana, Verbena bonariensis, Tibouchina and Pistia stratiotes dominate the landscape on land and in water.