Singapore Garden Festival 2014

Singapore's biennial Garden Festival was held at the Meadow at Gardens by the Bay for the first time this August. Previous festivals have being held at the Suntec Convection Centre. The festival featured show gardens created by international landscape and garden designers, floral displays and Penjing competitions. Penjing is the ancient Chinese art of depicting artistically formed trees, other plants, and landscapes in miniature.
Gardens by the Bay were a magnificent backdrop to the wonderful show gardens and displays as well as the many market stores selling horticultural items. As many Singapore residents live in high-rise apartments and their gardens are confined to their balconies a large section of show balconies were on display to give inspiration.
The show was hugely successful with over 300,000 people visiting the show over the 9 days the festival was on.

Colourful advertising

Cup and saucer planters

A spinning lion

Lots of displays to keep children entertained

Drum planters filled with orchids

Carnival by the Bay Garden

Tinpot man

Sacred Garden was the Gold award winner

Australian Garden by Jim Fogarty

Vertical by Australian Designer Brendan Moar

Japanese Wind  by Yamaguchi Yosuke

Full Circle by English designer  Andrew Sturgeon

Silver Medal winner Layered Spaces by American designer Joe Palimeno

 Layered Spaces by American designer Joe Palimeno

Crocheted trees

Crocheted trees

Grasshoppers

Orchid lady

Green model

Orchids and butterfly

Jute butterflies

Balcony garden

Balcony garden

Penjing display

Penjing display

Penjing display

Penjing display

Fantasy garden

Orchid Extravaganza

Over 18,000 orchids have been incorporated in a display at the Flower Dome at Singapore's Gardens By the Bay . The orchids are on show till the middle of September and also feature competition orchids from one of Singapore's Orchid societies.
The display features over 40 different species of orchids and the centre piece of the display is a walk - through 10-metre tall orchid kaleidoscope.
The floral display is designed by award-winning Japanese landscape architect Jun-ichi Inada and features Japanese elements in the design.

Orchid display outside the Flower Dome

Vanda Mrs Joaquim - Singapore's Floral Emblem 

Oncidium orchid

Orchid arches

Phalaenopsis orchids

Bamboo poles add a Japanese influence

Orchid totems

Phalaenopsis orchids

Dendrobiums

The main display

 The kaleidoscope

Phalaenopsis orchids on the outside of the kaleidoscope

Entrance to the kaleidoscope

Inside the kaleidoscope

Inside the kaleidoscope

Inside the kaleidoscope

Inside the kaleidoscope

Inside the kaleidoscope

Inside the kaleidoscope

The exhibits for the Orchid Society 

Phalaenopsis exhibits

Dendrobiums exhibits 

Vanda exhibi

Prize winning Tiger orchid

Some of the prizes