I’ve sent several people postcards with photos that look like this. They were too good to pass up even though I had no idea what that was.
It turns out they are ‘The Supertrees’, sculptures amongst the landscaping at a new tourist attraction called ‘Gardens by the Bay‘.
The supertrees don’t look like much up close, and we didn’t actually see very much of the garden due to the inescapable allure of domes. And, what domes they were!
The first dome had a cloud forest climate, very cool and misty. There were several elevated walkways and a lot of crazy landscaping, but the thing that most caught my eye were the many bog plants — pitchers, flytraps, orchids, all kinds of alien-looking things.
The second dome (‘the Flower Dome’) did not have many flowers. Better, lots of cactus and (for some reason) a whole lot of baobab trees, painstakingly transplanted from Senegal.
