Orchid Garden of Singapore... A disappointment

The national flower of Singapore, since 1981, is the orchid Vanda Miss Joaquim. However, when you arrived in Singapore, you would not be able to see Miss Joaquim in the airport or the streets of Singapore, as she can only be seen and is "not so well preserved" in the Singapore’s Orchid Garden at the Botanic Gardens of Singapore.

I’m disappointed to see the orchids are not well maintained in the Orchid Garden (hey, the fee was $5, I thought I would be seeing something more). I wanted to take picture with the Vanda M. Joaquim, however, there was none which was beautiful enough to take picture with!

Ok, blamed it on the rainy season… but hey, this is Singapore, you would have thought that things are done smoothly here and the fact that Orchid Garden was officiated by the Minister Mentor, one would assume that someone there would really take care of the place.

Sadly, this is not the case. Me and a few foreigners wondering around were probably wondering what happen to the maintenance of the garden since we all expected something more than what was actually displayed. Even outside market has more flowers than what the Orchid Garden can offer… Hey, Brunei should have one Orchid Garden as well… since many Bruneians love orchids…. we can attract some tourist money in this area.....

In Singapore, it seemed that only outside the Raffles City Plaza (?) can one see some orchids being part of the the landscape but not around Orchard Road... maybe the tourist agency could look into replating more Miss Joaquim so that younger singaporean knows more about their national orchid... as for us Bruneians, the bunga Simpur can porbably be found at your backyard and if you still dont know that our national flower looks like, go the roundabout at the airport and you will see on there displayed.... :P