Bougainvillea

Charity begins at home
There is no place like home
Home sweet home
Home is where the heart is
Home is where my bougainvillea blooms.

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During times when there are no flowers, the plant looks ordinary. When flowers appear they are transformed, from the ordinary to the extraordinary. People stop to look at these unusual clusters of flowers that are like multiple gemstones mounted on a single stalk. It is not difficult to imagine diamonds, rubies and sapphires in place of the real flowers. Imagination has the power to make life glitter.

Hortpark flowers

Walking from Kentridge to Hortpark and back. The flowers are not the same everyday. The leaves too grow from young to old, the path remains the same but the surroundings change because nature is never static. The plots of landscaping belong to various companies undergo various design changes and each time new plants and trees and flowers are planted to please our senses as we walk through them. It sounds a little cliched to say that the only thing constant about the Hortpark is change and the lovely thing happening now in Kentridge Park is that the Tembusu trees are flowering profusely in unison and the air especially at the hill-top carpark is filled with their lingering fragrance.

Sunshine flowers

We usually take the sun's existence for granted. It rises everyday, showers us with warm rays and leaves while most of us are still in the office or in our cars stuck in traffic jams. The sun is like people whom we take for granted such as our parents who provide the means for us to grow and thrive and have comfortable lives. Our parents are like the sun, always there for us.

Torch ginger, Frangipani

If there were awards for flowers, the torch ginger should be nominated into the Most Popular category and be amongst the top ten in Singapore. It has presence, attraction and the quality to beckon from afar. The Frangipani flowers could take the prize for being an everbloom. Have you ever seen a frangipani tree without flowers? I have not. In whatever part of the year I see them, they are always dripping with flowers.