Trees are sometimes taken for-granted. They are the backbone of any landscape scheme. However their stoic 'woodiness' can still surprise us sometimes. Mother Nature blesses her trees with vibrant blossoms of flowers, intricate colors and grains of their trunks, or their occasional shedding and emerging of a new crown…

Nature's wonders are aplenty - so much that fauna seem to manifest themselves in the world of flora as well...'fox tail palms' and 'fish tail palms', 'monkey palms', and 'snake palms'.

Well we've got "shrubs" from one foot to six feet tall.

Creepers and climbers are not as nasty as they sound - rather think of them as Nature's carpets and curtains in any garden, especially ones in Singapore (where space is tight), a trellis with a climber on, or a pergola with a creeper on top is an excellent way of creating space-efficient impact.

What do water plants make you think of? Imagine...

I remember the young girls harvesting the lotus flowers in the film 'Three Seasons' rowing slowly through the tall flowers...
I remember having lunch in Bali, the terraced padi fields in the distance, a large pot, overflowing with water lilies, before me.