Roger and Stephen in Singapore: Singapore Garden Festival

Wednesday, 27 August 2014

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

Grasshoppers

Orchid lady

Green model

Orchids and butterfly

Jute butterflies

Balcony garden

Penjing display

Fantasy garden

Tuesday, 17 July 2012

Singapore Garden Festival 2012

Singapore's annual garden festival was held last week at the Suntec City Convention centre.The exhibition covered 2 hectares over two levels of the convention centre and attracted large crowds. Many of the displays were suited to owners of apartments and there were also a few larger show gardens suitable for Singaporeans with landed properties. Garden designers from around the world had contributed to the displays.
Also included were floral and bonsai displays . The floral displays were by floral designers from Singapore and Malaysia. Many of the floral displays featured orchids. In the retail area countless stores were selling orchids and were doing a roaring trade.