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SINGAPORE – A Malaysian landscape garden Inch Lim celebrating the beauty of the seaside plants has won one of the most prestigious awards of the Singapore Garden Festival
The Wild And The Restless, a garden of 80 sqm, curved bamboo screen, presents mainly native or exotic wild plants that have migrated from places such as the Americas to become common pathway plants in Southeast Asia.
It will be presented at the biennial festival, which returns to Baie Tomorrow (July 21) with a variety of displays by garden and flower designers.
The Garden Won the Excellence Excellence Awards, Gold and Horticulture 63 Years in the Landscaping Category – The Second Festival
This is one of 13 gardens Fantasy and landscape exhibits, created by award winning local and international gardeners.
This year's festival has been conceptualized as a tropical garden.
Highlights range from posh balcony gardens to floral masterpieces to fantastic garden spaces. The public can also look forward to lectures and floral jamming sessions, as well as to an orchid show at the Flower Dome, conceptualized by filmmaker Royston Tan.
The festival is organized by the National Parks Board (NParks) and Bay
Its seventh edition includes two new branches – the SGF Orchid Show, which ran to the National Orchid Garden and other parts of the Botanical Gardens from Singapore in April, and the SGF Horticulture Show to be held next year at Jurong Lake Gardens
The main show will run until August 3 and will extend over 10 ha through The Meadow, Supertree Grove and Flower Dome. More than 600,000 visitors are expected this year.
South African designer Leon Kluge, 38, won the Best of Show, Gold and Horticulture Excellence Awards in the Fantastic Garden category. Aloes, impala lilies, African grass and olive trees are some of the plants in his African Thunder exhibition, which also has sculptures inspired by baobabs and dung beetles
It tells the story 39: Rain History Returns to Africa "The public will experience the heartbeat of Africa," says Kluge
. This is the first year that all SGF gardens have received at least one silver medal.
The Straits Times is the official media partner of the Singapore Garden Festival
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