Category: Garden

Spring Blossoms at Gardens by the Bay

What does Spring (春天) brings to mind? Daddy thought Spring always symbolise Life, a new Beginning, and blooming Flowers.

Marina Bay’s amBAYssadors were invited to explore Gardens by the Bay (GBTB)’s Spring Celebrations, and also a special Lo Hei (撈鱼生) at Majestic Bay Seafood Restaurant.

We started our tour, by visiting the Garden’s sculptures. We all know the famous Conservatories (Flower Dome and Cloud Forest), Supertrees but there are pockets of little gardens and landscaping dotting GardensByTheBay. Some sculptures look differently when viewed from another angle.

Someone commented Merrill Lynch’s Bull is very verile, is it any coincidence the Bull is placed at GBTB’s Bull-Ring?

At Heritage Gardens, you can find Elephants, Rabbit, Stones (in their natural state), and Malay Kampong style house.

Kenneth Er (Gardens COO) told us that Buddha and Bodhi tree placement reflect Buddha’s journey from India to China. He also shared why some Elephants are missing ear-lobes (souvenirs).

Then we came across this hugh Baby. His name is Planet, and his Daddy is Marc Quinn. All 7 tons of Planet is resting on one hand, breakdancing?

From certain angle, Daddy is amused that Planet looks like Humty Dumty falling off Marina Bay Sands.

GBTB has fenced up baby Planet, in case some Singaporeans decide to heed our Government’s baby bonus initiative and rub the baby.

The highlight of our tour is Flower Dome’s Spring celebrations.

Flower scent hits our nose when we step into the Dome. More details about Gardens’ Spring Celebrations here.

2013 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Snake. How many KumQuat (金橘) snakes can you count?

Every corner we turn, fragrance greets out nose. Take a deep breath.

We saw many couples romancing under the hut, surrounded by an explosion of colours.

These are some of the other festive flowers around Flower Dome (click for the names). 春天来了, Spring is here.


We always remember the 1000 years old BottleTree (baobab) in Flower Dome, but did you know about the 500 years old Camellia tree? Also known in Japan as “Roses of Winter”, this grand old lady is still blooming.

We end the evening with Lo Hei at Gardens by the Bay’s Seafood restaurant Majestic Bay. With Flowers blooming and yuSheng, we shall welcome the Snake year together.

We would like to Thanks GardensByTheBay for the invitation, and it was nice to catch up with fellow amBayssadors again.
–> Spring Celebration activities can be found at GardensByTheBay link.
–> More flower photos can be seen on our fanpage

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Huat Ah ! Wishing one and All Health and Prosperity !

Jacob Ballas Children’s Garden is Five !

Jacob Ballas is 5 ! Singapore’s Children’s Garden has always been popular with parents and teachers. To celebrate it’s birthday, the whole garden was turn into a fun-filled carnival, with proceeds going into a fundraising pot.

Wow, we saw trains in the park, and kids are in hyper mode 🙂

Video : Carnival activities, the boat and train are popular

Look at the cheeky kids, Boon Yee and Xin tried to ram Daddy with their giraffe !

Some of the supporting vendors and brands are : Forum the Shopping Mall (information counter), Hard Rock Café, Julia Gabriel Centre, Chengzhu Mandarin Centre (Rochester Mall), Kids 21, The Marmalade Pantry(@ the City, Ion Orchard and @ the Stables, 55 Fairways drive), Oriole Café and Bar.

Kids just need to know a lot of food and games await them! So many families pop by to support the event (no wonder carpark space became a big headache haha)

Cousins big and small 🙂

Beside the usual attraction like the bouncing bridge, we found angry bird catapult too ! No real birds were used as ammunition.

Tree house. This is one of the must-try at Jacob Ballas, the other would be the water feature 🙂

We maximise our coupon to buy more snacks and tidbits. No thanks candy floss, too sweet for Daddy.

Wow, bouncing castle right in the center of the garden ! Unfortunately, we had to skip this due to the long queue.

More stalls providing games and food.

The whole garden is a big carnival, weather was pretty warm but the shades kept us cool.

Otherwise, the pirate boat should chill us up haha. Boon Yi got the same expression from Legoland haha.

Daddy ask them afterward whether they like to be pirates, both Yi and Xin request for second round !

Although the water feature was not available for the weekend, no one was complaining. There was a train track instead !

Choo Choo ! The smiles on their faces made it all worthwhile 🙂

Kids got to display their new percussion skill at the sand pit.

Time to look after our tummies. We finish up our coupon with more food.

That was how we spend our morning two Sats ago 🙂

We would like to take the opportunity to HI-5 Jacob Ballas for the invitation. Our kids enjoyed their garden outing again and the carnival atmosphere was fantastic. You might be interested to find out how the Wacky Duo brothers enjoy Jacob Ballas.

More photos are up at our fanpage album. Everything about Jacob Ballas can be found at their website.

** Please take note Jacob Balls is free, but adults can only enter the secret garden with an accompanying child :p