Singapore Botanic Gardens

There's a Sembawang Park.

You could even have said Singapore Botanic Gardens.

Yeah, that's the full name.

Something that will make you cry.

The number marked that one collection.

The specimen was pressed, dried, and sent to the herbarium at the Singapore Botanic Gardens.

And there it sat.

Fifteen years later, in 2015, a botanist named Michela Rada published that Hoya as a new species.

Corner.

Corner was a giant of tropical botany.

He'd spent years at the Singapore Botanic Gardens.

Years later, Ruth wrote a short paragraph about him for a Linnean Society paper on women who named plants.

In Singapore for sure, but also most common in the world.

I vividly remember strolling through the Singapore Botanic Garden when I suddenly spotted what looked like a small dinosaur just a few meters off the path.

I was close enough to see the yellow speckles along his scaly back and the leathery texture of his slicking tongue.

This lizard felt enormous.

Hanoi regularly ranks among the world's most polluted cities during the winter months, when traffic emissions and industrial dust trap pollutants.

And finally, members of the public can soak in the festive spirit this year of by decorating Christmas trees at the Singapore Botanic Gardens.

Gardens Aglow, a part of NParks' year-end celebrations, will showcase 250 trees decorated by individuals, families, organizations and community groups.

The initiative builds on the garden's annual Trees of the World tradition, which features over 200 decorated native trees stretching from Tonglen Gate to Bukit Timah Gate.

Launched in 2006 by NParks and the Wildlife Reserves of Singapore, the Singapore Hornbill Project aimed to reintroduce more hornbills to urban areas through artificial nest boxes.

These artificial nests were introduced in parts of Singapore where hornbills didn't even previously occupy, such as Bukit Timah and Singapore Botanic Garden.

Alongside the ongoing greening and tree-planting efforts across Singapore, these artificial nest boxes allowed hornbill populations to reestablish within just a few years.

These nests, designed to mimic natural tree cavities, provided essential breeding opportunities.

Between December 2008 and April 2009, three artificial nests were used by hornbills.

And between December 2009 and April 2010, this number increased to seven.

The program established populations in Bukit Timah, Pulau Ubin, and Singapore Botanic Garden within just a few years.

The species returned in the 2000s through the myriad of human-initiated design interventions, making this the ultimate comeback story at the intersection of conservation and design.

I think, I, I think it's, it was like, so I recall there was...

Um, I was told about this article, like, last time that they used to gauge, uh, in the, how dry it is by looking at the Singapore Botanic Gardens pond-

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... and how dry it got.

Even my clients and everyone else know the sports I'm doing and what I'm doing.

and I'm setting up walks in the in the like when I go to Singapore which I do often I typically reach out to someone and say should we go for a morning walk in the Singapore Botanic Garden or I attend those recovery meetings also to give back because now There could be others who are suffering from alcohol challenges, which I did when I had a divorce.

I also look up those meetings and I'm very proactive about it.

I stick it into my calendar before.