Green Culture Singapore’s young, budding gardening enthusiast, Lim Xuan Hong gave another orchid-related talk last Saturday (10 Oct 09) at Singapore Botanic Gardens Function Hall. This talk was part of the talk series brought out by the ‘Community in Bloom’ (CIB) Programme, in collaboration with National Parks Board and Green Culture Singapore.
Xuan Hong is an apartment gardener and he grows a wide range of plants at the corridor outside his home. He is most well known for orchids and carnivorous plants among the members of Green Culture Singapore. In this talk, he shared his experience of growing Bulbophyllum orchids, which constitutes the largest genus in the Orchidaceae, as well as, the many species of Bulbophyllum orchids that one can find in Singapore nurseries, their uniqueness and how to grow them well. Some orchid collectors choose to grow bulbophyllums for their unique flowers, which have interesting looking lips.
During the Q&A session, an experienced grower in the audience also shared his knowledge of growing them successfully with all present that day. This talk also saw the congregation of gardening enthusiasts from three plant interest groups and societies in Singapore, namely, the Singapore Gardening Society, Orchid Society of South East Asia (OSSEA) and Green Culture Singapore.
