Singapore Botanic Garden

Ginger Garden is one of the most extraordinary attractions of the Botanic Gardens. Lying just next to the orchid garden, this garden spreads across 1 hectare. Staying true to its name, the garden contains a variety of different species of Ginger and related families with a total number of 550 unique species. These groups are divided based on geographical regions such as the Pacific Zone, Asia, Africa, and Tropical Americas. Three more regions named Beautiful Gingers for all types, Ethnobotany for studying and understanding them followed by Ginger enclosure. A pool filled with Amazon water runs throughout the garden for the nourishment of all the plants. Lilies fall down and on the water adding glory to the picturesque view of the Garden.

National Orchid Garden is the most popular highlight to explore with your Singapore Botanic Gardens ticket as it houses 60,000 orchids. Serving people with euphoria since 1995, this garden has always been a romantic tourist spot. Containing 2000 species of enchanting orchids and 1000 hybrids, the National Orchid park is known internationally for displaying the world’s largest tropical gardens. The placement of orchids is based upon their colors and seasons, making up four large sections. Cream and yellow orchids represent spring, red and pink depict summer, white orchids portray winter, and purple, red, and rare blue orchids reflect autumn.

The newest addition to the Botanic Gardens of Singapore, the Learning Forest is a support to the new Tyersall Gallop Core attraction. Planned as an initiative to integrate 6 hectares of rainforest into a larger forest spreading across 5 different zones of 10 hectares each. The zones range from freshwater forest wetland to a low land rainforest. All of the zones are connected via a network of broad and elevated walkways. This place contains one of the tallest trees in Southeast Asia and the captivating ones with unique forms and barks like the Wild Fruit Trees as a part of the Botanic Garden’s Collection.

Tanglin Gate Gardens are some of the oldest attractions to explore with Botanic Garden ticket Singapore. The garden has adapted progressive and special techniques to nurture and flourish different kinds of plants. The garden holds historical importance as this was the place where famous British professor Eric Holtman designed the orchid breeding technique. The garden possesses the historical gate of Tanglin at its entrance as the main gate of the entry. This gate dates back to 1859, the colonial times when the garden was built under the Britishers. The gate showcases the garden’s history, heritage, and cultural significance with utmost pride.

Staying true to its name the Palm Valley is a world of enchanting Palms in the Botanic Gardens of Singapore. A popular picnic destination, this garden is a large lawn filled with green grass covered with palms. The valley encompasses 115 genera and 220 species of palm with families and subfamilies. Over 124 genera and 1400 species of palm subfamilies reside in the valley. These palms are arranged in a very special manner, known as the Bone Pattern. All six families represent major plant groups that exist in biology. Almost every type of Palm can be found in the palm collection of this captivating valley of Botanic Gardens. A beautiful lake flows inside the garden to make your experience even more fresh and calm.

The symphony lake is an artificial water body built inside the central core of Botanic Gardens in 1974. There is a reason that this lake was named ‘Symphony’ as this name points out to the orchestra. In 1994, the Shaw Foundation, featuring a big performing stage, was built in the middle of the lake. This place witnesses orchestras and concerts with melodies pleasing the ears of visitors. The stage is popularly known as ‘Venue’ as performers come every month to entertain the spectators. People are seen to be sitting on the lawn while relaxing and enjoying the rhythm of the music.

The Eco lake of the Botanic Garden is home to the elegant Black swans belonging mostly to Australia. You will be spotting beautiful little creatures moving delightfully in pairs on the lake and sometimes, they might hang out on the green lawns. Eco lake is one of the three lakes of the Botanic garden in which the shores of the water body touch the green grass with flowers falling upon it. Singapore Botanic Gardens ticket will present you with a peaceful setting of Eco lake circling the lawn is a perfect spot to calm your bones after a hectic day. This lake is located in the Bukit Timah District, the poshest area of Singapore.

Extending the area of the Botanic Gardens learning forest attraction by 8 hectares, the Gallop Extension is an addition to the garden. The gardens are expensively built to make the area of the Garden Reach up to 82 hectares in total. The main purpose of building this park was to bring nature even closer to people by educating them about forest ecology and its presence. Besides Mother Nature, this place encompasses an art gallery, 120-year colonial house, Mingxin foundation, OCBC arboretum, and comp adventure groove.