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I REFER to Monday's report, 'Gardens By The Bay gets first blooms''. The $893-million project, especially its $2- million anchor plant collection of 210,000 bromeliads in 3,000 varieties, will certainly be a visual feast when it opens in 2011.
However, the crowns of the bromeliads can hold pools of rain water, which will become dangerous breeding grounds for the different species of mosquitoes, whose life cycles are about 10 to 14 days in tropical Singapore.
If the bromeliads to be displayed in the lavish new flora garden are planted in pots, then the danger of mosquito infestation is averted, as the pots can be tipped over regularly to displace the stagnant pools of water. That is what I do with my pots of bromeliads.
Will the bromeliads be potted or planted in the ground? If the organiser is not careful, the Gardens By The Bay might cop a 'blooming' fine from the Ministry of Environment. When that happens, the blooms might turn to gloom.
Pang Hee How
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