Singapore garden

Here's a picture of my new garden in Singapore. It is on the balcony off of my bedroom. I've been meaning to buy plants for it for quite some time but haven't really been around much. Today I went with a friend to 'nursery row'. I say row because there had to be 10+ nurseries in a row. They had a great selection of plants. Some of which looked familiar and some that I hadn't seen before. There was a very nice man who walked around with us and gave us information about each of the plants. He also was great at carrying things for us and re-potting plants. The best part is that they deliver for free.

My balcony had been really bare...I knew this but hadn't really noticed it much until today. It is amazing how much a few plants can warm up a space - even a balcony in a city. I am so happy that I bought these today. I need to get a few more in order to finish things off but this is certainly a big improvement over the empty space it was.

I also bought two small houseplants for indoors. They had a huge selection of orchids for both indoors and outdoors. I have heard that they are really hard to keep but the people at the nursery assured me that they are easy in this climate. I think my next trip will include some orchids since they are so pretty.