Mum and Lovey Go To The Orchid Garden

On a sunny(ish) afternoon, we decided to go to see a little chunk of the Singapore Botanic Gardens - the National Orchid Gardens. The gardens have more than 1000 varieties of orchids (plus a "hybrids" garden, where they make nifty hybrids of orchid species and name them after celebrities or visiting foreign dignitaries), and I warn you... there are going to be a lot of orchid photos ahead. I'll start with people pictures, and try to cull my 300 pictures of flowers somewhat.

The entrance - we don't know quite what we're in for yet.

I got a picture of Lovey smiling! Thats how good these gardens are.

This is one of about 6 photos of mum... the others are all eyes close, mouth open, or she just looks pure mad.

Under the golden arches. Heh.

The garden was really brilliant and very impressive. So much work has gone into making every square metre of the garden interesting. There are so many perfect flowers everywhere, and even pushing the wheelchair up the hills didn't dampen our enthusiasm (although can't say the same for the backs of our T-shirts :)). We spent several hours pointing out every little new orchid to each other, as well as enjoying the Old Man's Beard, ginger plants and bromeliads. We were pretty happy to reach the "cool garden" after a few hours - air con really is a beautiful thing. OK, I'm going to bombard you with a  million flower pictures now... sorry. I can't choose which ones are best! I'll make them little, that should help. You can click to make them bigger if you like them. Oh, and none of these names are right - they are my names, which are pretty good names.

Bacon and egg orchids

Evil black orchids

Japanese warrior helmet orchids

Ginger plant/waratah!

Egg orchid

Pajama orchids

Old Man's Beard corridor

Visiting-the-dentist orchid

I'd highly recommend the Orchid Garden to someone looking to kill a few hours in a gently active way in a calm (on a weekday) environment. It really was spectacular, and the best curated garden I've ever seen. Going right onto the "recommend to visitors" list!