Blooms of the week
Insectivorous plants : pitcher plants and butterworts are in bloom
Flowers: red ginger, giant white bird of paradise, bottle palm, tailflowers, calla lilies, bromeliads, phalaenopsis, Amazon lily, etc.
Fruits: screw pine, Christmas palm
Flowers : bromeliads, lollipop plant, hibiscus, bat flower, orchids, Mexican shrimp plant, Queen's spiderwort, rabbit's foot, Panama Queen, spider lily, Costa Rican skullcap, etc.
Fruits: banana tree, mandarin orange tree, papaya, coconut palm, jackfruit tree, gin berry, soursop tree, Malabar spinach, etc.
Flowers: banana tree, soursop tree, cacao tree, dendrobium, limeberry tree, etc.
Spectacularly shaped and coloured orchids. Some are fragrant.
Some aroids are also in bloom, such as tailflowers and peace lilies.
Fascinating staghorn ferns and tree ferns.
Plant walls
Blue strap fern with iridescent fronds (terrarium)
Strange whisk-fern
Foliage of various shapes, textures and colours.
Colourful blooms: begonias, tree gloxinia, rhytidophyllum, sinningia, passion flower, african violet, Rex begonia vine, codonanthe, Brazilian edelweiss, Canterbury bells, chandelier plant, etc.
Plant walls
Flowers: aloe, hechtia (end), some cacti and euphorbias, drimiopsis, etc.
Fruits: woolly-joint prickly pear and Barbados gooseberry.
Near 90-year-old elephant foot trees and golden barrel cactus
Flowers: orchid cactus, crown of thorns, bougainvillea, burro's tail, etc.
Peeling bark of the fragrant bursera
Beautiful penjings
Flowers: Chinese quince (end), chocolate vine, Chinese wisteria, common camellia
Wollemi pine
Witch-hazels
Snowdrops (end)
Winter heaths
Crocus (end)
Reticulata irises
Winter aconite
Other spring-flowering bulbs (striped squill, Siberian squill, grape hyacinth, etc.)
Pasqueflowers
Hellebores
Forsythias
Daffodils (beginning)
Primroses (beginning)
Spring flowering native plants (beginning)