just wanted to share these blooming leeks in my garden – aren’t they gorgeous? I didn’t know leeks bloomed!
and if there’s a horticulturist out there, could you possibly identify it? the googling ain’t helping!
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here’s to a brand new week (in a couple hours)!
I thought I’d share this set of photos from a visit to the gardens by the bay, and its two beautiful conservatories.
I’m totally taking this weekend to show you the beauty of singapore – and celebrating our man-made (but wonderfully so) garden city.
back to food programming tomorrow (or more realistically, sometime next week)!
after a walk through the flower dome to view tulipmania, we went on to the cloud forest conservatory and were greeted with a tall streaming waterfall, and high humidity amidst cool air air-conditioning.
if you do go, I think you will notice a discernible difference between the two conservatories – the flower dome is a veritable cacophony of color, and the cloud dome a more muted (almost bleak) landscape. the roof garden holds a bit more colour – most of which these photos are of – but it’s pretty cool how they hold to their names.
tulipmania was really a mini garden of imported tulip flowers within the larger garden that was the flower dome conservatory – strips of color delineated by tulip petals, as well as the distinction between buds and blooms. it was a gorgeous display – these flowers very obviously aren’t native to our sweltering, tropical climate, but the wonders of air conditioning and glass-domestruction meant I had the chance to share these beauties with grandma.
warning – this is a photo post. you might like to look away now if you have a fear of colours, are a man, or if the sheer beauty of nature literally takes your breathe away.
I brought my grandma and grandaunt to the conservatories at singapore’s relatively-young gardens by the bay for a look at tulipmania on mother’s day, and we spent a ridiculous amount of time wowing and fawning over the varieties of succulents, cacti and blooms there.
it’s a beautiful place: exotic, luxuriant growth encased in bright natural light (and air-conditioned to boot).
thought I’d share with you some photos of our incredible lime plant. it’s a tiny bush in a small pot, but it’s been giving us great harvests – we get large bowl-fuls of lime every couple weeks, and fat juicy ones at that. I don’t know what species it falls into, but it is a common enough variant in singapore – you get halves of these at hawker centres if you order barbecued seafood or lime juice.
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