The 'crazy' gardener

IF you see a bespectacled Japanese man dressed in a jacket watching your moves at the Flower Dome at Gardens by the Bay, don't be alarmed.

It's only landscape artist Kazuyuki Ishihara. He is no stalker, but rather, is observing visitors taking photos of plants so as to improve his landscape displays.

"No landscape garden is ever 100 per cent perfect," he says. "I view my gardens in a certain way and visitors may see them in another way. So I try to see it from their point of view such as which angle they like, what flowers they like taking pictures of and improve on my landscaping."