HORTPARK - GARDENER'S DAY OUT

car park

I went for the last Gardener's Day out and bought some Tillandsias and Gesneriads.

a forest Bauhinia

English Garden

bromeliads

COOLED CONSERVATORIES

Rat Tail Cactus

It was quite a while since I visited the conservatories.

The Flower Dome has interesting plants such as Rat Tail Cactus and Grevillea while the Cloud Forest has mostly interesting orchid species and a number of interesting gesneriads.

a Grevillea

an orchid

close-up of the orchid

Kohleria

close-up of the flowers

Masdevallia pinocchio

CLOUD FOREST PART 3

This is the highest point of the Cloud Forest. Known as The Lost World, it features some of the most interesting plants such as the following:

carnivorous plants 

American Pitcher Plant (scientific name: Sarracenia species and cultivars)
Sundew (scientific name: Drosera)
Butterwort (scientific name: Pinguicula)
Pitcher Plant (scientific name: Nepenthes cultivars)

orchid - Miltoniopsis cultivars
gesneriad - Stretocarpella
fern -  Adiantum sp.
Rhododendron
Begonia

ACHIMENES

These photos show how backdated I am in posting recently.

Anyway, this is a container planter I planted up a few months ago using the plastic container purchased from NTUC Fairprice. This Achimenes has been flowering reliably for months on now. Don't ask me what species or cultivar this is because I don't really care anymore. As far as I am concerned, this uncommon gesneriad has been rewarding me with lots of beautiful flowers.

SINNINGIA

I also repotted these miniature gesneriads Sinningia 'Star Freckles', S. 'Rio das Pedras' (synonym: S. muscicola) etc that I bought from the same gardening bazaar as the Droseras in the previous post. I am lazy, so I thought of replanting them into plastic containers, much like terrariums, to reduce the need for watering.

I am monitoring them very closely for these few days because I don't want the leaves to rot under the wet humid conditions. I neglected some of my Fittonias in the plastic containers recently and some had rotten leaves that emitted a smell and caused the proliferation of fungus.

The other hairy Sinningia 'Amizade' was not repotted but I took the photos to show the extent of growth since I last bought it. Actually, I think I overwatered it and whilst it is not dead, the growth seems to have suddenly slowed down so much, perhaps in response to the damaged roots?