About 14,000 suggestions from the public were received by the National Parks Board (NParks) and, on Sept 8, visitors got to see how the new and the old blended together at the reopening of the Chinese and Japanese gardens in Taman Jurong. After extensive rebuilding works...
Ms Nur Syuhada Limat , a senior landscape architect with NParks, taking a wefie with National Development Minister Desmond Lee, bonsai collector Eddy Teo, Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong and NParks chief executive officer Hwang Yu-Ning at the Bonsai Garden.Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong and National Development Minister Desmond Lee planting a tree at Jurong Lake Gardens on Sept 8.
Originally built in the mid-1970s, the Chinese and Japanese gardens, along with Lakeside Garden, which was completed in 2019, are the three gardens that make up the 90ha of Jurong Lake Gardens – Singapore’s first national garden in the heartland. Since 2019, Lakeside Garden has welcomed 25 million visitors.
Over at the Japanese Garden, the large Guesthouse, which is also constructed from MET, taps natural air circulation to stay cool. Landscape designers Daniella Danis, 28, and Jastyn Ong, 38, from volunteer group Friends of Jurong Lake Gardens, along with other volunteers, planted 70 yellow flowering plants such as justicias and marigolds in July.
“We realised that memories are very important. So we didn’t knock everything down as we need to value the past. When you transform the Gardens, you can tell your children this was where it was or how it used to be,” she added.
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