This post is mainly for Daxin, unless there’s another botanically-inclined reader out there. Here are two interesting plants we saw in Bali. The first is in a pot in the Tirta Gangga (Water Palace) near Amlapura: Below is a closeup- or at least as close as I could get in the conditions: It looks like […]
This is in the Yunnan Garden. Can you identify it? I can’t.
These are growing outside one of the Technopreneuship Building. Or is it the Innovation in Technology Building? Or the Research Center for Technology and Entrepreneurship? Anyway, some fancy new building with a highfalutin buzzword name. The flowers are lovely, though; two colors follow:
They’re adding the barbed wire to the top of the new fence, just as I feared. At least it’s not razor wire. But it adds even more obstruction to the cooling, refreshing jungle view we used to have: To see how this affects your view of interesting plants closer to the sidewalk, behold: But there […]
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 […]
Epiphytes are plants that grow on trees; I don’t think they’re parasites, but they use the bark to gain a foothold and nutrients. The older trees at the NTU campus have really great collections of epiphytes on them. First, a tree with a nice birds’ nest fern in it: And then the next tree in […]
These blossoms just happened to land on the grass a few minutes before I passed on my walk this morning.
They’re all the same plant. They bloom all year in Singapore, and drop blossoms on the sidewalk constantly. If the spent blooms are swept up by 7:30 there are a few more on the ground by 7:45. I gathered a sample of newly-fallen flowers this morning so you could have a look at some of […]