Orchid Extravaganza 胡姬花展

胡姬花，或大中华圈称之为兰花，为新加坡国花。
Orchid flower, is the national flower of Singapore.

配合新加坡八月九日国庆日的到来，滨海湾花穹Flower Dome 的花展换上了国花胡姬花，如果你是这几个星期到来参观新加坡园艺展，套票里是包含花的入门票。
In conjunction to upcoming 9th August Singapore National Day, Flower Dome of Garden By The Bay, is having an Orchid fair . If you were to visit the Singapore Garden Festival 2018, you get to visit Flower Dome together as the ticket is inclusive of Flower Dome entrance.

别的国家有乒乓外交、熊猫外交，新加坡则有胡姬花外交-有个胡姬花研发小组，开发了许多新胡姬花品种就以到访的外国元首或名人命名，上网查一查这些命名就包括了习近平、莫迪、曼德拉、默克尔、戴安娜等等就是没有最近特金会的特郎普与金正恩，可一窥对其评价。
Some other country, there is table tennis diplomacy, panda diplomacy; while Singapore is haivng Orchid Diplomacy- There is a special R&D team , whom is specialized in breeding new Orchid species. When there is some reputable guests visit Singapore, then the new orchid species would be named after these honoured guests. Internet info shows these includes China's Xi Premier, India's Modi, Mandela , Germany's Merkel , Diana etc and the list goes on.
There is none for Trump and Kim who just had an ice-breaking summit last month, hmmmmm

花穹 Flower Dome 里除了一整片胡姬花海，让各个到访游客沐浴在花海中，一旁有一些顶级胡姬花是参赛胡姬花，都养的漂漂亮亮。
In the Flower Dome, besides the large exhibition of Orchid sea for visitors to take photos, There is a corner for orchid competition. All participating orchids were so nice and beautiful, thus I kinda sympathy to the judges on how to choose the first, second third place.

胡姬花种植不会太难，也因为它的根部不能浸泡在水中（土壤中），所以一般看到人们都是将它放在黑木炭上养殖，浇花了多余的水立即排到地上去。听有种植胡姬花的亲戚说，胡姬花会从空气中摄取水分，所以其实不用浇太多水。我相信这是新加坡选择胡姬花为国花的原理，寓意以极少的资源，在恶劣的环境下长出璀璨的花朵。
To plant an orchid at home is not very diffucult, as due to the fact that orchid root is not supposed to soak in water/watery soil. Thus normally people plant orchid in black charcoal, where the water get to dispersed easily after you water it. And according to a relative of mine, the orchid would self capture the water from the air, so we do not need to water it frequently. I believe this characteristic of Orchid mades it to be chosen as the national flower- with little resources and under bad external environment, yet flower blossom as charm.

喜欢胡姬花，而这时有到来新加坡，切勿错过了胡姬花展
Let's not miss this orchid extravaganza 2018, if you like orchid and so happen to visit Singapore this time !

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Posted from my blog with SteemPress : http://auleo.vornix.blog/2018/07/29/orchid/

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