Monday, January 27, 2014

Gardens by the Bay V - Supertree Grove

And finally the trees :)


The trees are up to 16-storeys high, twelve of them are at the Supertree Grove, but two clusters of 3 trees are located at the Golden and Silver Gardens.

I didn't know but research teaches you a lot of things: first, "11 Supertrees are embedded with environmentally sustainable functions like photovoltaic cells to harvest solar energy", second, Supertrees are planted with more than 200 species of bromeliads, orchids, ferns and tropical flowering climbers, of more than 162,900 plants...
 


...and third, "Supertrees are made of four parts: reinforcement concrete core, trunk, planting panels of the living skin, and canopy."

 
 
 

One of the central trees has the Supertree-top bistro on its top, at a height of 50 meters. I have only walked at the 22-meters high, 128-meter long, curved OCBC Skyway that links two of the trees.



The trees.

 

The Skyway.

 
 
 

The view without the Grove trees.


And Marina Bay Sands.