<*/Sentosa Flowers 2006>

Yep, finally - it's over!!

We spent 1 hour packing up and transporting stuff home, and another 90 minutes preventing the garden from cluttering up with all the stuff. The 2 trolleys of plants was quite a sight actually ... when they're all put together like that, I don't recall having so many carnivorous plants. It's back-breaking work. Will need another day or two to really get back to non-personal life (i.e. the days of NO LIFE).

They also threw a closing ceremony cum dinner, and oddly enough, no one told us that we were supposed to receive tokens of appreciation. SO, halfway through my curry fish, I distinctly heard my name being called but totally shrugged it off until I realised everyone was staring at me. Ran up the length of a school hall to get a nice present (Sentosa towel) for the talks. And back to attack my curry fish. THEN, halfway through my lovely dessert of bread & butter, I heard something really odd. "The little GREENS of horror". It was repeated several times before anyone knew what the hell it was. Ran back up the length of a school hall to get a certificate of participation. (It's "The Little Garden of Horrors".)

OK, really grossed out by the whole affair. Way too much publicity, so I'm keeping my head down for yet another decade (hopefully a lifetime), a la the 2003 New Paper incident.

Tillandsia people were really sweet, they made me a gift of a T.bulbosa x butzii. It's now hanging in my garden together with the rest of the Tillandsia. Oh then again .. I gave them a Sarracenia x "Mardi Gras" and their parents and sister each a Nepenthes rafflesiana. Nice to make good friends like these, who are not silly chit-chatting middle-aged women pretending to be gardeners.

Also chatted with the founder of one of Singapore's gardening forums, and hmmm. Apparently my little fiasco way back in 2001 with growing Darlingtonia in a transparent fridge and ice blocks went down local gardening history, stuff of urban legend. Scary.

Hmm .. more pictures coming up, mostly of the damage we did to the furniture. =D Can't be helped, CP-growing is messy business with all the peat and the acidity.