TULIPMANIA 2015

panoramic view from South American Garden

This was the last burst of tulips Fairy Tales display before the change to Nursery Rhymes and my goodness, the tulips looked drop-dead amazing! These photos were taken before the crowd came in.

The kaleidoscope of colours was mesmerizing and the new varieties such as the frilly ones were eye-popping! 

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

Cinderella

Little Red Riding Hood

the Snow Queen

Tulipa 'Red Riding Hood'

Hansel and Gretel's Candyhouse

the Ugly Duckling

almost black tulips

yellow-orange Tulips

Tulipa 'Queensland'

the white frills lend a unique look to the conventional Tulips

this is the first time I see the Dicentra spectabilis

I didn't expect it to be so small in stature

nature produces so many hearts in a plant

windmill

yellow Daffodils (Narcissus)

BEGONIA SEMPERFLORENS

This pot of double-petaled Begonia was bought by me during Clean and Green Singapore at HortPark in early Nov 09 from Candy Floriculture's stall.

Since then, I left it in my office and neglected it until mid Dec 09 when I brought it home. When it was at the office, it received little sunlight and sporadic watering since I was on leave on most of the days. The leaves looked terrible and there was not a single flower in sight.

After bringing it home, I repotted it with a Clematis and applied lots of organic fertilizer and placed it along the corridor alongside my Brugmansia and Antigonon. See what a little sunlight, fertilizer and repotting can do to rejuvenate a deteriorating plant. Now it has produced lots of pretty and sweet small pinkish-red flowers, which was the reason why I bought it in the first place. But whilst moving it around, I sometimes damaged the delicate herbaceous stems.