The sixth edition of the Singapore Garden Festival is back! Running from from 23 – 31 July 2016 at the Gardens by the Bay, this year’s event covering an area of some 9.7 hectares, is the largest ever. The highlight of the festival is probably at The Meadow. Here visitors will be treated to eye-catching creations by some of the world’s gardening greats including the nine Landscape Show Gardens, six Fantasy Show Gardens, fourteen Floral Windows to the World and five Balcony Gardens – all of which are crowd favourites.
My favourite landscape show garden – The Treasure Box by Inch Lim of Malaysia.
Modern Day Maui – a Fantasy Show Garden by Adam Shuter of New Zealand.
Another favourite will have to be the burst of colours in the Flower Dome provided by the Orchid Extravaganza. On display are a rich heritage of orchids that will provide an appreciation of what the world’s most diverse botanical family has to offer.
An award winning Rawdon Jester ‘Great Bee’ at the Orchid Extravaganza at the Flower Dome.
More unusual orchids.
A host of other displays and activities are also lined up for the festival including a Learning Garden, a Landscape Design Challenge featuring teams of students, the World Of Terrariums which sees more than 100 creative displays of terrariums put up by students, hobbyists and community gardeners. There is also a Vibrant Marketplace in the non-ticketed area to look out for. This sees over 100 booths offering both sustenance and items such as plants, gardening and landscape products and services, and arts and crafts.
A pineapple plant, one of the many useful plants – kitchen-wise at the Learning Garden.
The festival also features a photo and an Instagram contest. The “Tropical Floral Wonderland” Photography Contest offers prizes such as a Nikon D750 kit set, Nikon D7200 (18 – 105mm) kit set and Nikon D5500 (18 – 55mm) kit set. To enter, photos should be submitted by email to sggardenfest@gmail.com by 1 August 2016. For mobile phone photographers, uploading a photo to Instagram with the hashtag #sggardenfest (post has to be set as public) or via the contest page on the SGF Facebook page during the Festival period, will qualify entrants for a chance to win Nikon COOLPIX S7000 cameras.
The festival runs until Sunday. More information, including ticketing can be found at the Singapore Garden Festival website.
More photographs from the festival:
More Fantasy Gardens – Mystical Depths by Hugo Bugg of the UK.
A Garden in a Flower, a Fantasy Garden by Michael Petrie of the US.
Dare to Dream, a Fantasy Garden by John Tan and Raymond Toh of Singapore.
Another crowd favourite – Nature’s Resolution, a Fantasy Garden by Stefano Passerotti of Italy.
Power of the Earth, a Fantasy Garden by Katsuhiko Koga and Kazuhiro Kagae of Japan.
Another view of Modern Day Maui.
The Sugarcane Maze – a Landscape Garden by Kong Jian Yu of China.
Another view of the Sugarcane Maze – a Landscape Garden by Kong Jian Yu of China.
Back to Nature – a Landscape garden by a South African / New Zealand team.
Benny’s Sunflower Farm.
Gary’s Musical Flower Field.
Another view of Gary’s Musical Flower Field.
Winter Wonderland.
A Balcony Garden.
Galaxy Floristic – Floral Windows into the World.
Another Floral Windows into the World display.
A Celebration Floral Table.
More photographs from the Orchid Extravaganza:
The Long and Winding Road 
Thank you !
The event looks spectacular and beautifully eye catching ! The colours are wonderful.
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Amazing! Thank you for sharing all your beautiful photos. Happy Friday, Jerome Lim. Namaste