Big wins at the Singapore Garden Festival

FOR most visitors to the Singapore Garden Festival, the different gardens provide lots of photo opportunities.

But for the participants, the competitions that are part of the festival are often hotly contested.

Don’t miss these gardens that won the hearts of visitors and the judges.

The time: In the far, far away future

By B Gurumurthy

Entrepreneur Gurumurthy, who specialises in major landscape projects, large-scale festive motif decorations and garden show design and implementation, imagines what a Singapore would be like if an apocalyptic event altered the climate and earth’s inhabitants.

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A few humans might survive, and they would find themselves in a fantasy world where the flora and fauna are overgrown.

The garden, which won a bronze award in the Show Gardens competition, is on show outside Ngee Ann City.

The Orchard Bridge

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Farm-to-table, right at home

By Eliam Eng and Andy Eng

The biggest winner in the Show Gardens competition is “The Orchard Bridge” by uncle-nephew duo, Eliam Eng and Andy Eng.

The Orchard Bridge, which won the Gold Award, Best of Show and Best Construction awards, reimagines an even greener Orchard Road than the one it is today.

The centrepiece of the garden is a spiral structure, a bridge, that the designers imagine connecting several buildings. The bridge also signifies the relationship between man and nature.

Inner Growth Garden

By Christian Jenkins

Here’s a garden that everyone would want to retreat to while shopping on Orchard Road. Australian landscape design specialist Christian Jenkins has created a tropical escape within an urban landscape.

Rare and exotic plants feature in this garden, but no doubt, it is the peaceful lagoon and viewing platforms that make it a Gold winner in the Show Gardens competition.

Nature’s Boutique

By Team Avant-Garde from Singapore Polytechnic

“Nature’s Boutique” isn’t your regular clothing store. Instead of clothes, the outfits are made entirely from leaves and flowers to create works of art.

It was awarded the bronze in the Landscape Design Challenge, which showcases landscape designs by students from institutes of higher learning. The competition gives students a platform to display their creativity and landscape-design knowledge. See this at the Singapore Botanic Gardens.

By Royal Bee-cree

By Central Singapore District

The Singapore Gardeners’ Cup is a friendly competition for local community gardeners. This year’s theme is Gardeners’ Fantasia. Teams had to design whimsical gardens.

The team from the Central Singapore District won the gold for their design, “By Royal Bee-cree”, which features bee-attracting plants, shaped like a castle. View it at the Singapore Botanic Gardens.

The Singapore Garden Festival is on at ION Orchard and Ngee Ann City till Aug 7, and at the Singapore Botanic Gardens till Aug 9. For more information on SGF, log onto: https://sgf.nparks.gov.sg. .