Yunnan Garden at Nanyang Technological University
This morning I had a little extra time to walk through the garden and take some pictures. They’re not an exhaustive show of all the kinds of plants in the garden, but might give you an idea of what Chinese gardening aesthetics can do with a lot of space and a tropical rainforest climate.
Here’s one of the five or six pavilions in the garden.
Here’s that same pavilion from a different standpoint, framed by a tree with really interesting lichen.
Below, something very rare in Singapore: a stretch of unpaved smooth lawn. It has benches and lanterns along the walkway. Nobody’s sitting on the benches. In fact, hardly anyone uses this park, after the commuters have come through it to the university and the Tai Chi exercisers have gone home.
Time for another pavilion picture:
Now a little brick pathway, complete with umbrella palms. When the rain hits these they make a really loud spattering noise:
And finally, no Chinese garden is complete without wierd rocks in it. These surround a cenotaph that celebrates various dignitaries’ presence at a 1958 celebration to mark “the completion of the first phase of construction of Nanyang University.” They mean Nantah University – see my previous post on taxi driver history.
