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.

Hortpark flowers

Some flowers in the Hortpark. More coming up...

Rangoon Creeper - Defying the heat of the morning sun.

Tetracera indica - the only one left as most have become fruits.

Frangipani (Plumeria) - Seen from my friend's garden, other people's flowers.

Plumeria - Frangipani flowers

"Two is company, three's a crowd" - This was one of many proverbs I had to memorise in Primary school. Three points make a triangle, in painting flowers the advice is to paint uneven numbers, so three flowers in a vase will look more appealing than two or four or six. Three in a group can be pretty good company if they are friends and three is a good number in Chinese because it sounds like 'live'.

Flowers seen at different levels.

Flowers seen at different levels. Using the Canon 400D is always a pleasure. Though I have said that I am all for point-and-shoot cameras such as my Canon IXUS 870, nothing quite compares to the feel of using an SLR and seeing that the pictures taken have more depth and richness in colour. Though a standard lens is much lighter, I prefer to use the 200mm zoom.

Oleander (Close-up)

Plumeria (Frangipani varieties) - At ground level.

Bauhinia Kockiana (From below)

African Tulips (From above)