Flowers on Sentosa Island

This post features the flowers I saw on my Sentosa Island outing. Though there were not many, my best encounter was with these Octopus Tree flowers that were about a meter above eye level. Considering that these trees were always towering over me at heights of 5 meters - those at the Singapore Botanic Gardens, on Mount Faber and near Sungei Buloh Wetlands Nature Reserve and MacRitchie Reservoir - I was really lucky to come this close to these flowers.

Unknown. These flowers were on the ground and I did not see any plant nearby that had these flowers. Perhaps I did not look above me. I like the tiny flower pattern encased in the pentagon-shaped centre.
One of my favourite flowers - the frangipani (plumeria)

The Thunbergia, faithful vine.

Celosia spicata out in full force.

Too late to see the flowers. Instead there were small berry-like fruits at the top of this plant that I do not know the name of.

A flowering Kopsia fruticosa shrub across from the tram station at Palawan Beach.

Thunbergias

Two is company, three's a crowd, so the proverb goes. Here they look like they are enjoying each others' company. On this day, there was a profusion of these flowers both the blue and the white ones.

Thunbergia grandiflora - Clock Vine

These flowers can be spotted in the Singapore Botanic Gardens and West Coast Park. The plants are climbers and the flowers hang down the trellis in clusters often attracting huge, black bees. It must be a lot of work to maintain these plants that I am sure require constant trimming. I am just happy to see them in public parks because I do not have the energy to take care of plants such as these though it would be nice to be seeing flowers all the time in your own garden.

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Thunbergia grandiflora 'Alba'

Thunbergia lauriflora - Blue Trumpet Vine

Longing for sunshine, so I pray that the heavens will give the rains a break because I need to feel the warmth of a sunny day.