EPIPHYTIC ORCHIDS

I love epiphytic orchids and the numerous crosses of the following:

• Aerides hybrids
• Ascocentrum and Ascocenda hybrids
• Dendrobium hybrids
• Rhycostylis hybrids
• Vascostylis hybrids

VANDA

It was an overcast sky and these photos don't actually do service to these Vanda hybrids planted in between the frond sheaths of the Arenga palm. 

FLOWERING PLANTS

Amherstia nobilis

These are photos of some of the flowering plants in the Bay South garden.

Brugmansia cultivar

orchid

Commelina in flower

Close-up of the blue flowers

Celosia at Chinese Garden

Hibiscus mutabilis

yellow Spathoglottis cultivar

Close-up of flowers

Vanda orchids on Lagerstroemia calyculata

Arundina orchids

A flowering Saraca indica

ORCHIDS NAMING

It was a day of authority. Literally, since President Nathan was our VIP. It was raining and our President was touring the other parts before he came to our office to view the orchids.


The Aranda 'Lily Chong' x Vanda 'Sansai Blue' is now named after Mrs Nathan. What an elegant flower for an elegant lady. And I did mention orchids. So there was one reserved for President Nathan. The  Dendrobium 'Tristar Power' x D. lasianthera with the antelope horns is now named after President Nathan.


What a day!

SINGAPORE BOTANIC GARDENS

There are a lot of amazingly beautiful plants at the Singapore Botanic Gardens and I cannot list them down one by one and describe them. In this post, I will just show the scientific names of some of these plants for easy reference:

• 2nd photo: Saraca cauliflora (common name: Yellow Saraca Tree)
• 4th photo: Impatiens walleriana (common name: Busy Lizzie)
• 5th-6th photos: Callicarpa tomentosa (common name: Beautyberry)
• 7th-11th photos: Congea tomentosa (common name: Wooly Congea, Shower Orchid)
• 12th-20th photos: Sterculia cordata
• 21st-24th photos: Cissus cisyoides (common name: Princess Vine, Curtain Vine)
• 25th-28th photos: Terminalia species
• 29th-32nd photos: Jacaranda obtusifolia (common name: Fern Leaf Jacaranda)
• 33rd-35th photos: Vanda 'Miss Joaqium'
• 36th photo: Johannesteijsmannia altifrons (common name: Joey Palm)