I never miss a Singapore Garden Festival and it is something I always look forward to. A biennial event, the Singapore Garden Festival is Singapore’s premiere garden and flower show and it brings together award-winning international and local designers, florists, and horticulturists in one venue.
Singapore Garden Festival 2024 offered an array of highlights, including Best of Show Designer Gardens and Floral Windows to the World, both which featured award-winning designers from around the globe. While the Balcony Gardens, and the Singapore Gardeners’ Cup competitions featured homegrown designers who put their creativity and talents on display.
There were two categories in this year’s Best of Show Designer Gardens, which included 12 Landscape Gardens and Fantasy Gardens. The Best of Show award for the former category went to Mark Cook and Emily Cook (USA) and Ban Nee Chen Pte Ltd, while the latter went to Leon Kluge (South Africa) and Tropic Planners & Landscape Pte Ltd (featured in main photo above). As an urban farmer, a landscape garden that I found highly memorable was Ann Teo’s landscape design garden titled ‘Engardening’, which included numerous herbs and fruiting plants.
Floral Windows to the World Championship, which showcases cut flower displays, had a live competition element this time round, where 16 floral designers from 16 countries put together their designs over three days. The grand champion for this year was Ahti Lyra from Estonia.
Other event highlights included Floral Table Top displays, a Landscape Design Challenge, Floral Harmony exhibits, the Floral Designers Society (Singapore) Cup and floristry demonstrations, talks and workshops.
For a front row view of the event, watch this video tour:
