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The Singapore Garden Festival is fast approaching on the 15th of July. Setups have already begun for a few days now with heavy hardscapes making the initial entry whilst the softscapes coming in batches. Vendors and designers are also promptly preparing. Here’s a glimpse of the entrance of the 4th floor’s orchid show still at [...]
These photos were taken by avid photographer, Ms Rita Sim, during her visit to our nursery a few months ago. You may view the full collections of her works here. *This entry was backdated. ** Photos courtesy of Ms Rita Sim
In commemorating the centennial celebrations in the year 2010, the Singapore Scout Association has adopted a unique Orchid hybrid, and named it the Dendrobium Singapore Scouts. The Dendrobium Singapore Scouts is lime green in colour, which is the blend between selective colors extracted from the classic (khaki) and current (olive green) scout uniform colour. The blended [...]
As part of Singapore Botanical Garden’s 150th Anniversary and year end celebrations, we were cordially invited to be part of the companies/organizations that were invited to decorate 150 Xmas trees in the light up of the “Trees of the World” event. We diy our own floral version of tropical snowmen for sprucing up the vicinity around our [...]
Renantanda hybrids (Renanthera x Vanda) are generally red/orange in colour due to the dominant red of Renanthera lineage. Yellow coloured Renantanda are a rare occurrence. Renantanda usually produce large blooms and numeral sprays of flowers; side sprays are common too . Renantanda flowers generally last for more than a month from bud to bloom. This [...]
Frequently unknown to most layman, orchids can produce many phenotypic colours and traits in a single cross with multiple alleles suppressing each other. Taking for example the above crossing between the brown curly, purple lipped Dendrobium Spatulata and yellow and red lipped Dendrobium SGH. Their progenies gave rise to a bizarre phentypic combination of orchids [...]
Spatulatas (Dendrobium Lasianthera), originate primarily from Papua New Guinea, Eastern Indonesia and variably across Southeast Asia and the west Pacific Islands. Their originating sources are frequently from pristine, undisturbed forest. Spatulatas orchids are very colourful and resilient Dendrobiums and can grow to a large majestic size as seen in the photo above. Spatulatas do very [...]
Splash mutations are well sought after by many collectors and hobbyist as they occur very rarely, maybe one plant in a thousand of non-mutants. Splash mutations are mostly unstable mutation and can only be propagated vegetatively to reproduce more of them. Thus, their rare occurence and difficulty to reproduce augmented their value as collectibles. If [...]
This Doritaenopsis currently in bloom is a crossing between Doritis Pulcherrima & Phalaenopsis Equestris. This progeny has a remarkably red tongue and smooth colours descended from both parent plants and its vegetative growth more similar to its Phalaenopsis. This variety is not the original Doritaenopsis Purple Gem registerd by E.Iwanaga in 1963 but a more [...]
Tolumnias, used to be called Equitant oncidiums, are true miniatures. Tolumnias are native to the carribean region and usually have flowers not more than 1cm large and looks very much like miniature Oncidiums. Their colour ranges from white to brown, yellow to purple, and thus is also one of the main source of colours of [...]
