Prickly
Smells nice
Growing in gel
Birds of paradise
Green foliage
Nice smelling
Twisted
Happy?
Yummy!
Do you know this plant? This is Pandan, which is widely used in Malaysian/Asian cooking. It has a nice aroma, and is many types of food including desserts and curries. The juice is often squeezed from the leaves, to be used as food colouring.
Minty.
Admission to the Conservatory of Flowers is free on the first Tuesday of the month. So I packed my camera and went along. Luckily I arrived in the morning, because by the time I left a few hours later, there was a long queue to get in.
It was tricky taking photos because of the crowd. One could not linger and had to move on after taking a shot.
But I managed to take a number of photos, but just a few in this post to start with.
There were lots of pitcher plants.
Honestly, I don’t find them attractive, but I do find them very interesting… does that make sense?
I was having a cup of coffee after having been indoors in the damp and crowded environment. Glad to be outdoors, and glad I was not in the queue.
See Part 2 for more photos.
Here are some photos which I posted on my other blog, but I thought they are appropriate for this blog as well, although not all photos are garden-related.
I visited the Japanese Tea Garden recently. It’s a beautiful place.
Interesting bridge stones. Walk carefully or you will get wet.
I didn’t get a chance to climb this bridge – it was full of kids. There was hardly room for me to take this photo, balancing myself on another bridge with excited parents, who were taking snapshots of their children.
Before the crowd came…. The bridge in front was the one that I was able to stand on, to take the above photo.
I love the stone lanterns. The garden is so lush.
Fabulous place. I spent many hours here drawing.
Another lantern, and a fence (sometimes ropes are used) along a path by the pond/lake
Lots of moss on the ground, and a beautifully trimmed bush in the background
There’s a tea house in the Japanese Tea Garden. I had udon, and it made me think of my time in Japan.
Continue from Part 1
A very Japanese looking section in the gardens
This section was under repair but it still looked great
Not sure what this little guy has seen…
I love the light and dark shades and shapes of the leaves
I like the pot at the top of the steps – a nice feature.
I hesitated about including this and the next photos, since they are not very good photos…
but I love these 2 sections of the garden a lot.
Lastly, a man having a quiet time at the gardens.
Just a couple of little spaces that I came across while in Beijing, which I’d love to share with you.
When I am in this space, I feel like it could be anywhere out in the country. But it’s only a small space, and if I stretch my neck to look around, it is actually surrounded by buildings.
I feel inspired – how can I make make my little space at home cosy and provide it with a sense of seclusion?
A little “natural” arch with an interesting feature in the background. Such an inviting scene…
In my last post, I uploaded some close-up photos of roses that I took in Beijing. Here are more roses, but I would also like to show you the plants and the surrounding area too.
Rose bushes along a fence
More red variety in the foreground, with petunias in the pot in the background.
Sometimes it seems like a rose bush has blooms with different tones of red.
More roses along this fence, with petunias at the bottom
A lovely pink-purple variety
I love this simple rose.
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