Lisa's Singapore highlight was a visit to the Singapore Botanic Gardens. The property contains many smaller gardens.The Bamboo Garden has beautiful large and small bamboo trees. The Kitchen Garden grows peppers, ginger, cinnamon, garlic, sweet potatoe, ginger, tapioca, vanilla, black peppercorns, nutmeg. The Healing Garden has so many plants used for their medicinal properties. We spent 5 hours walking around the park and did not see every garden.
Of course the main attraction was the National Orchid Garden where research and beauty come together. The botanists in Singapore create new orchids every year. And it takes 4 years for one new species of orchid to be produced.There is a special garden naming all newly hybrid orchids after a world leader. Princess Diana has an orchid named after her. There are also orchids for Prince William and Kate, Laura Bush, Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan, Angela Merkel, and Qatar's own Sheikha Moza.
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