{"id":33404,"date":"2019-10-06T15:56:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T23:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=33404"},"modified":"2019-10-11T20:02:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T04:02:12","slug":"the-singapore-botanic-gardens-are-world-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/06\/the-singapore-botanic-gardens-are-world-class\/","title":{"rendered":"The Singapore Botanic Gardens Are World Class"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Arundina<\/a>\"Spathoglottis<\/a>\"Spathoglottis<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Heliconia<\/a>\"Waterfall<\/a>\"Heliconia<\/a>
\nThe Singapore Botanic Gardens (SBG)<\/a> is one of the most popular gardens in the world. Founded in 1859, it’s played a pivotal role in Singapore’s orchid industry, but there’s more than orchids in its 203 acres (82 hectares.)<\/a> This tropical paradise is home to the National Orchid Garden<\/a>, and also a Ginger Garden, Children’s Garden, Fragrant Garden, Evolution Garden, Ethnobotany Garden, a real tropical rainforest, several restaurants, and much more.<\/p>\n

\"Waterfall<\/a>\"Purple<\/a>\"Bandstand<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Evolution<\/a>\"Tropical<\/a>\"Bonsai<\/a><\/p>\n

Dave’s pictures from last month’s visit reveal just a tiny fraction of the garden’s lush grandeur. The SBG is also a major center for plant science, conservation, and education. In 2015, Singapore was proud to have the gardens declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site<\/a>, one of only three botanical gardens to receive the honor. With over 10,000 plant species on display, and millions of visitors annually, the SBG is certainly a world-class institution. Check back here soon for more photos from Dave’s Singapore trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Singapore Botanic Gardens (SBG) is one of the most popular gardens in the world. Founded in 1859, it’s played a pivotal role in Singapore’s orchid industry, but there’s more than orchids in its 203 acres (82 hectares.) This tropical paradise is home to the National Orchid Garden, and also a Ginger Garden, Children’s Garden, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botanical-gardens","category-general-gardening","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33404"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33456,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33404\/revisions\/33456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}