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Description and Ethnobotany. A creeper with slender stems cascading giving a curtain feature. Plant can climb but requires support. Green, elliptical leaves with entire to irregularly toothed margin, growing alternately along the stems. Clusters of pinkish white flowers on axillary stems.
Dec 2, 2016 · Learn how to grow Vernonia elliptica, a plant that was used by Lee Kuan Yew to green and beautify Singapore. See photos of the plant and tips on how to care for it.
Learn how Greenhost adopted the Lee Kuan Yew plant, a dangling vine from Burma, as its iconic feature and how to care for it at home. The plant was named after the former Singapore Prime Minister who initiated the Garden City project.
Mr Lee Kuan Yew recognised the importance of greenery in the urbanisation of Singapore. Mr Lee, also known as Singapore’s Chief Gardener, launched the first nationwide tree-planting campaign and Singapore’s greening movement by planting a Mempat sapling at Farrer Circus on 16 June 1963.
Mar 27, 2015 · Mr Lee Kuan Yew did not just have a broad vision of transforming Singapore into a Garden City, but played a key role when it came to the detailed planning.
May 4, 2023 · The late Mr Lee Kuan Yew can be thanked for these trees and Singapore’s evolution from a Garden City to City in Nature. He was afterall affectionately known as Singapore’s Chief Gardener. Mr Lee was particularly fond of the rain tree, the angsana, the acacia for beautifying Singapore.
Jul 30, 2018 · Learn how Singapore transformed from a polluted backwater into a green city-state under the leadership of Lee Kuan Yew, who called himself the 'Chief Gardener'. Discover how the National Parks Board and the youth are preserving and enhancing Singapore's biodiversity and urban spaces.
