Hortpark Singapore

Hortpark Singapore

I went on a visit to Hortpark Singapore recently at 33 Hyderabad Road, off Alexandra Road. I did not realize that the National Park Board had opened the 23-hectare sized Hortpark since early this year.

According to their website, Hortpark in Singapore is a one-stop hub for gardening hub for gardening-related, recreational, educational, research and retail activities. Hortpark Singapore is poised to be a knowledge hub for plants and gardening. This horticultural park will allow the industry to share best practices and showcase garden designs, products and services. As a gardening hub, HortPark will focus on learning and education, industry partnership and collaboration, and events and activities.

Enough of the official Singapore Hortpark introduction. My first impressions of Hortpark were good due to many reasons. The Hortpark carpark was unusually well stocked with flowering plants. A brand new building that kept Hortpark visitors cool despite the late afternoon heat felt inviting and comfortable. A water feature at the edge of the Hortpark building offered pleasant scenery.

Moreover, many interesting mini garden plots with various flowers and plants of Singapore kept me wandering around Hortpark. There was a nursery filled with even more interesting flowers and plants inside Hortpark. I even noted a small open-air pond at Hortpark although its condition was not something to shout about.

Of the many plots of gardens at Singapore Hortpark, I liked the one where the characters from the Wizard of Oz (the witch and tin man) stood out as life-sized figures. Another likeable Hortpark plot was the twin heart-shaped gardens kissing and hugging each other.

Families with children and young kids should find the playground at Hortpark Singapore to their liking. There are plenty of chairs and tables scattered throughout Hortpark for family picnics. Facilities for washing and toileting were more than adequate in Hortpark Singapore. There were lots of green spaces and walking paths for families to walk around Hortpark for hours.

As part of the Singapore Southern Ridges park connector, visitors can walk out from Mt Faber to Kent Ridge Park and vice versa through Hortpark. There is a stretch of walking path that cuts through Hortpark adorned with lots of flowers known as the Floral Walk.

Hobbyists and botanists in Singapore will love HortPark for its interactive and fun-filled programmes for learning and education.

There is also a calendar of events and activities at Hortpark Singapore to generate and sustain long-term interest, enhance awareness and encourage industry partners to seek out new concepts, products and technologies. With diverse activities like guided tours, talks and workshops, learning in HortPark certainly would go beyond textbooks. If you wish to discover a listing of workshops and activities available at Hortpark, visit Singapore Nparks website for more details.

* Nparks’ Hortpark Singapore website
* More Hortpark Singapore photographs
* Walk at Singapore's Hortpark
* Singapore Map of Hortpark
* Transport to Hortpark by bus, cars