Gardens and Herbs in Urban Space

Today we visited Hort Park for its Gardeners Day Out. Gardeners Day Out is conducted every 3rd Saturday of the month. They sell gardening things and conduct gardening workshops as well as garden tours. They also have a hort clinic where you can consult NParks about your plants. And the best thing is that they are free! (Unless you buy things) They sold lots of stuff ranging from succulents to indoor plants to hydrponics to seeds. NParks also sold butterfly attacting, bird attracting and pollinating plants at affordable prices. We bought a refreshing smelling cologne mint plant for $8 and coconut juice as well as some apricots to munch on. Too bad we did not have the chance to attend the workshops! Other than that, we visted the different themed gardens in Hort Park. They include the kitchen garden, Balinese garden, edible garden, butterfly garden, native garden, and therapeutic garden. Therapeutic gardening is the practice of using plants and horticulture to impr...

What an opportunity that I wouldn't want to miss! I was given a task in my organisation to transform the gardening corner. The first thing cane to.my mind was Edible Garden , Therapeutic garden . After much deliberation an consultation with some knowledgeable folks on community gardening, I started to draw out a theme based plan. Edible garden that serves the needs of the community. Garden at unkempt state (Nov 2017) Work-in-progress edible garden...with a plan and goal in mind. (Dec 2017) First 2 planters box are up with okra (ladies fingers) and pea seedlings (22 Dec 2017).