The Flying Saucer At Sunset

Lenticular clouds (Altocumulus lenticularis) are stationary lens-shaped clouds with a smooth layered appearance that form in the troposphere, usually above mountain ranges. One was spotted in Singapore recently...

Eyes Of 30,000 Honeycombs

With 30,000 individual facets, dragonflies have the most number of facets among insects. Each facet, or ommatidia, creates its own image, and the dragonfly brain has eight pairs of descending visual neurons to compile those thousands of images into one picture...

A Kaleidoscope Of Colours, Shapes And Patterns

Spectacular and innovative in design, the Flower Dome replicates the cool-dry climate of Mediterranean regions like South Africa, California and parts of Spain and Italy. Home to a collection of plants from deserts all over the world, it showcases the adaptations of plants to arid environments...

Lightning Strikes, Not Once, But Many Times

Unlike light, lightning does not travel in a straight line. Instead, it has many branches. These other branches flashed at the same time as the main strike. The branches are actually the step leaders that were connected to the leader that made it to its target...

Are You My Dinner Tonight?

A T-Rex has 24-26 teeth on its upper jaw and 24 more on its lower jaw. Juveniles have small, sharp blade-shaped teeth to cut flesh, whereas adults have huge, blunt, rounded teeth for crushing bones. Is the T-Rex a bone-crushing scavenger?

Singapore Garden Festival 2018 - Showcase of Flowers & Gardens

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Asia’s premier tropical garden and flower show is returning for its seventh edition from 21 July to 03 August 2018 at Gardens by the Bay. With more than 70 garden and floral displays at The Meadow, Flower Dome and the Supertree Grove, SGF 2018 will mesmerise, surprise and wow visitors...


Promising a visual fiesta of exquisite garden and floral displays, this year’s SGF will feature a host of exhibits and activities including:

  • Fantasy and Landscape Show Gardens featuring approximately 80 sqm creations by top award-winning gardening luminaries from around the world. This year’s festival will feature landscape and garden designers from Australia, France, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, United Kingdom and United States of America.

Innovative use of structures to create interest and perspective... 

Look out for the little props used - They may just pop out and surprise you!

  • Floral Windows to the World featuring colourful and vibrant cut-flower displays and floral masterpieces with stunning set design and lighting by notable floral designers from around the world. This year’s festival will welcome master floral artists from Austria, Azerbaijan, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Japan, Romania, Singapore, South Korea and Spain. 

  • Balcony Gardens featuring colourful and inspirational displays for home and apartment owners. Visitors can see how these designers transform 3m by 3m spaces into a soothing retreat.
Balcony Gardens can be a relaxing haven for adults...

Or a cartoon-themed play area for kids...

  
  • Orchid Extravaganza in Flower Dome showcasing the world’s largest family of flowering plants. Orchids are a significant part of Singapore’s heritage and this year’s orchid display will see award-winning Singaporean filmmaker Royston Tan providing the creative concept and direction.
Set against a Peranakan backdrop typical of shophouses in Joo Chiat and Katong...

Orchids galore...

Colourful traditional Peranakan-themed icons include beaded slippers, trishaws, teapots...

Tiffin carriers and colourful tiled floors... 


  • ASEAN Garden, a special feature to mark Singapore’s chairmanship of ASEAN in 2018. ASEAN Garden will showcase a myriad of colourful blossoms symbolic of Southeast Asian nations, including lotuses, hibiscuses and orchids, just to name a few.

The Mountains & Vanda Valley...
  • Other stunning displays by NParks, a series of gardens with different themes featuring plants such as fragrant flowering edibles and plants with visually cool colours and pleasant scents.
The fun Flower Field with gnomes playing in a child's playground...

  • Landscape Design Challenge where 12 teams of students will transform 3m by 3m empty spaces into a garden within the span of four hours.

  • Gardeners’ Cup a friendly competition where 60 groups of community gardeners will be split into five teams to compete for the best show garden.
Several entries for the International Floral Design Competition came with self-composed poems...

  • A Vibrant Marketplace with over 100 booths offering food and beverages, plants, botanical resources, and arts and crafts for sale. Visitors can also look forward to performances by local musicians.
Be awed by the grandeur of the Landscape Gardens...

  • Other favourites include more stunning displays, the Learning Garden, displays by the Floral Designers Society (Singapore), Singapore Penjing & Stone Appreciation Society and Singapore Gardening Society, as well as various educational talks.
One of the Learning Garden exhibits which shows samples plants with seeds
that dispersed through different ways, e.g. water, wind, explosive....




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