Planted pond at Botanic Gardens

**budak** · 27th Mar 2009, 09:27

Not sure if it's been noted, but if you go to the Botanic Gardens and take a look at the smaller freshwater pond on the left of the main path (enter from the Tanglin Road gate) before the big Swan Lake, you will find that it's now filled with many aquatic and marsh plants, including familiar species like Rotala macandra, Rotala indica (red and green), Gratiola, Cabomba, Limnophila, Nuphar, Anubias, Aponogeton and quite a few species of Cryptocorynes (pontiderifolia, balansae?, cordata?, wendtii?). Quite interesting to see all these growing outdoors under the sunlight. Please resist the temptation to steal plants if you visit.

**barmby** · 27th Mar 2009, 11:08

Aponogeton Crispus ? I used to keep them. They grow exceptionally fast

**blue33** · 27th Mar 2009, 11:11

Thanks for sharing!

Picture would be good.

**Shadow** · 27th Mar 2009, 14:04

I wonder how long will it last

Does the national park maintaining it?

**medicineman** · 27th Mar 2009, 14:30

wow, this is new.
Last time I was there, there are only small quantity and variety of aquatic plants.

Got to love the revamped tanglin rd gate.

Any photo available on the marsh part? I know some you folks like to photo hunt there

**rwalker** · 28th Mar 2009, 16:56

Yap. I was there last week and saw that too. I think they just planted the aquatic plants as the C. Balansae don't look healthy. They will take some time to adapt.

**budak** · 27th Apr 2009, 09:35

Took some pics of the planted pond:

**budak** · 27th Apr 2009, 09:42

More pics:

**medicineman** · 27th Apr 2009, 12:07

Sweet... good attention to the details for the marsh part.
A great addition to the botanical gardens!

I can see that fish posing for your photo

**vinz** · 27th Apr 2009, 13:40

Budak,

Can edit and caption the photos for the benefit of our less knowledgeable members?

**barmby** · 27th Apr 2009, 13:43

wow budak...some real wild plants there.

**JamesCampbell** · 30th Apr 2009, 02:22

Seem all you guys from Singapore like planted tanks [ No offence ] is this the norm

**barmby** · 30th Apr 2009, 10:57

James, This is a forum for planted tank enthusiasts. Therefore, mostly singaporean with wet green fingers is seen here.

If you would like... there are other Singapore forums that specialize in Arowana, Pleco, and Cichlids. We can take this offline.