NOG guiding

Drizzling a bit today but all is fine. Guided 3 Italianos and 2 trainee guides (not the volunteer kind but those going for licensing exams one - very easy to recognise since they copy like no one's business).

Went a bit earlier to recce but then the blooming season is at all time low. Enjoyed the kaya toast from the Kopitiam there though.

Met a CH tourist who was commenting that the cicadas in SG are louder than those in CH - must be kiasuism even in the entomological world.

Managed to catch hold of a nice presentation of Dillenia suffructicosa flower and fruits


Then walked past the Bandstand post-rain


Today sooo yellow


More yellow


All freshly planted.

A couple of Chinese cymbids in flower. Too bad the weather here is too hot for scent production

All claimed to be Cymbidium ensifolium




Then you got Cymbidium finlaysonianum from SEA


Dendrobium farmeri's in bloom at the Orchidarium




So's the Sobralia sp.


Newly planted hybrids at the THSMH





Jasmine-scented Vanda Mimi Palmer



Like this yellow one:


Ornithochilus fuscatus in bloom in the Cool House