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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.
Sep 16, 2023 · SINGAPORE - Lee Kuan Yew is the man retired lecturer Leong Chun Chong, 73, admires the most, and so he found it especially meaningful to plant a tree on the 100th anniversary of Mr Lee’s...
Lee Kuan Yew GCMG CH SPMJ DK (born Harry Lee Kuan Yew; 16 September 1923 – 23 March 2015), often referred to by his initials LKY, was a Singaporean statesman and lawyer who served as the first Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990, and Secretary-General of the People's Action Party from 1954 to 1992.
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.
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.
