The Singapore Garden Festival (SGF), the first garden show to showcase creations from the world’s top award-winning garden and floral designers under one roof, will make its much awaited return to the Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Singapore.
This is the fourth time the biennial event will delight visitors from around the world. In 2010, the event attracted more than 300,000 visitors from Singapore and around the world. About 30 percent of the visitors were from abroad.
The nine-day event will line up exciting exhibits, greater variety and new offerings. Visitors will have the rare opportunity to see more than 30 internationally acclaimed garden and floral designers serve up a visual fiesta of exquisite garden and floral displays in the highly popular Landscape and Fantasy Gardens competition and the Floral Windows to the World competition.
In 2010, over 250,000 tropical and temperate plants and 65,000 cut flowers were used for the show.
Some of the highlights of the festival are:
- Best of Show Landscape and Fantasy Gardens featuring 10m by 10m creations by top award-winning gardening luminaries from around the world. This year’s festival will feature gardening luminaries from countries such as Australia, Canada, China, Japan, United Kingdom and United States.
- Floral Windows to the World featuring colourful and vibrant cut-flower displays and floral masterpieces with stunning set design and lighting by floral designers from around the world. This year’s festival will feature master floral artists from countries such as Australia, Brazil, Finland, Germany, Korea, and the Netherlands.
- Singapore Orchid Show showcasing Southeast Asia’s rich and diverse heritage of orchids. A dazzling display of the most diverse botanical family and the most important plant group in the international floriculture industry.
- Garden Fiesta offering educational, recreational and entertainment activities catering to the public, families, serious gardeners as well as hobbyists
- Vibrant MarketPlace offers a wide array of plants, gardening and landscape products and services, and arts and crafts for sale under one roof.
