The Flower Dome at Gardens by the Bay is refreshed with an original garden display this festive season. Designed by award-winning landscape designer Kazuyuki Ishihara, this fanciful floral display is embellished with delightful patches of edible plants.
This year’s Christmas overlay at the Flower Dome does not have one of those typical “Christmas tree and wreaths” look. It’s a more novel approach that made good use of colourful plants for that visual crunch, which I felt was better than last year’s.
To me, Christmas Sugar Mountain is still not as remarkable as Spring Celebrations and Tulipmania.
There is actually a story behind this floral arrangement.
A story between these two fruits, to be precise. Have a read:
One of the key highlights would be this cute little truck, completely adorned in green.
Right behind: A garden of lettuces.
It’s nice to see how seemingly ordinary plants were creatively woven together to form this display. It’s a tight fit, but you will find pumpkins, capsicums, tomatoes, strawberries and even pineapples in this little field.
There were a couple of pineapple (fruit!) apart from the big yellow one.
Due to the way Christmas Sugar Mountain is designed, there are these barriers instead of the usual short fences. Kinda hard to take photos of the entire scene. Probably explains why, for the first time ever, I’ve saw that no one (during my visit) was interested in taking a photo with the flower field.
A field of fresh greens waiting to be planted.
Christmas Sugar Mountain is the current floral display in the Flower Dome at Gardens by the Bay, from now till 5 January 2014*. For more information, refer to this page. Gardens by the Bay is also holding its first Children’s Festival, A Season of Joy – which takes place this weekend.
* The Flower Dome will be closed for maintenance on 10 December 2013.
Cloud Forest | Spring Celebrations | Tulipmania | Mid-Autumn Festival | Christmas Sugar Mountain
2014
Year of the Horse | War of the Roses | Sun Pavilion | Getting Ready for Tulipmania (Tulip Planting) | Tulipmania 2014 | French Faire | Persian Garden | Orchid Extravaganza | Singapore Garden Festival 2014 | Mid-Autumn 2014 Indian Safari | Yuletide in the Flower Dome | Christmas Wonderland
2015
Asian Tales | Tulipmania 2015 | Flowery Fun Times | From Tales to Legends: Discover Singapore Stories | Christmas Wonderland 2015
2016
Dahlia Dreams | Tulipmania Rediscovered | Singapore Garden Festival 2016 | Orchid Extravaganza 2016 | Tribal Tempo and Mid-Autumn Festival 2016 | Merry Medley
Blossom Bliss | Star Wars Day at Gardens by the Bay | Orchid Extravaganza 2017 | Autumn Harvest | Sakura Matsuri | Orchid Extravaganza 2018 | Singapore Garden Festival 2018 | Sunflower Surprise | Mid-Autumn 2018 | Poinsettia Wishes featuring Disney TSUM TSUM
Sakura Matsuri 2019 | Floral Fantasy | Children's Festival 2019 | FutureTogether (teamLab) | Sakura Matsuri 2020 | Flower Dome (2020 Reopening)
Dahlia Dreams 2021 | Once Upon A Time on the Orient Express | River Hongbao 2021 | Dale Chihuly: Glass in Bloom | Orchid Haven (Cloud Forest) | Tulipmania 2021: Its Wild Origins | Poinsettia Wishes 2021 and Kingfisher Wetlands | Christmas Wonderland 2021
Dahlia Dreams 2022 | Sakura 2022 featuring tokidoki | Rose Romance 2022, Precious Peony, Cloud Forest Kuwaha Sculpture, Active Garden | Hydrangea Holidays | Hanging Gardens: Mexican Roots | Construction Update: AVATAR: The Experience | AVATAR: The Experience Grand Tour |
Our kids love the vegetables and fruits 🙂
We were also fortunate to bump into some old folks from certain community. They were very interested in the crops, which we normally sourced from wet markets haha 🙂
Cheers, Andy
(Sengkangbabies)
Great shots as always. You got a fantastic eye!
Thank you for your kind words. I’m still trying to figure out this camera – it’s less forgiving than the other NEX cameras I’ve used.