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.
Today's weather - sunny
I think I should start with this post, otherwise I will spend time posting photos and this will be relegated to the back of my mind and never see the light of day.
I shall start with the easy one first. I am certain everyone knows what a car park is, so I shall not spend time explaining it other than saying it is a place or area where vehicles are parked. So is a carpark the same as a car park? Or is there really such a word as a carpark?
car + park = carpark?
I failed to find the word "carpark" in a dictionary with the same meaning. How or where does it originate? Frankly, I have often seen it being used locally in newspapers, magazines, brochures and so on. So I think it is one of those words that is unknowingly created locally and used so blatantly that it sort of became accepted here. It looks so natural together but I am inclined to think there is no such word at all. I mean, we can't put two words together to form a new word, can you?
There are similar words e.g. artwork, waterfront, seahorse, glasshouse, walkway, like these and how many of them are really acceptable?
Today's weather - sunny
It is always such a a joy to visit HortPark and sometimes they bring back so many fond memories.
I love this native climber Tetracera indica that I planted at the Irrigation Pond area to conceal the manhole behind it.
The Clerodendrum quadriloculare across the Hands-on-House decided to show its beautiful pink tubular flowers that earn it the deserving common name Starburst Bush.
Over at the Prototype Glasshouse, the attention seeking Impatiens walleriana cultivars and the Tibouchina cultivar were wooing me with its amazingly beautiful flowers.
Then at the Golden Garden, I saw for the first time the unknown red flower Bulbophyllum in bloom. Since planting it, I have never seen it flower and I was definitely secretly excited by the excellent growth exhibited by the orchid on the Rain Tree fork. I hope they don't prune it away someday.
Just beside the Fruited Vegetables Garden, a clump of Strongylodon macrobotrys (common name: Jade Vine, Emerald Vine) flowers were hidden amongst the dense leaves covering the shelter.
Further up at the Floral Stitches, a sun lizard was so well camouflaged against the trunk of the tree that I almost missed it.
The unknown Terminalia was also fruiting for the umpteen time. As someone pointed out, the winged fruits reminded her of the plastic balls commonly used in washing machines to prevent the clothes from tangling together. Instead of having two glands on the underside of its leaves, typical of Terminalia trees, there is only one small gland on this one.
At the former Arbor Garden was a small bed of Lobelia chinensis, which I grew in waterlogged areas in the Car Park Garden in the past and which I have not seen in recent times.
