Ornamental Elements

Hopefully, you will find the photo of the trees as fascinating as I did. I love the contrast of the ‘mossy green texture’ with the red vines climbing the trunks of the ‘Supertrees’ in the Singapore Gardens by the Bay that will open in June. The trees are between nine and sixteen stories high and feature silver-pink steel branches and climber plants. “The more than 220,000 plants, from every continent but Antarctica, range from baobabs from Argentina and Senegal—some of them weighing about 37 tons each—to woolly cactus plants from Bolivia and delicate “kangaroo’s paw” flowers from Australia. Beyond the furry cactuses and palm trees, Singapore’s ever-expanding skyline will be seen, somewhat surreally, through the greenhouse glass.”