A National Treasure of Singapore

Over the course of our 1st few weekends we check out the incredible botanical gardens.   As we walked through the gardens, we saw awesome tropical flowers, amazing fish and turtles in the ponds and giant lizards crawling along the ground- and even a cannonball tree.

National Orchids Garden

We also went to the orchid garden during the National Singapore Orchid festival.  Thousands of orchids were on display.  We learned that orchids are one of the easiest flowers to hybridize, so many new types are created each year.  We  saw the Barrack Obama orchid – as every celebrity who visits get an orchid named after them. All the national orchid competition winners were all on display.  There were some amazing displays like the orchid checkerboard which unfortunately wasn’t in bloom and the one with the ballerina- see picture below. All in all the orchid festival was amazing!