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Finding Joy
In my orchid garden, purpose and peace bloom
An attempt to keep a single orchid alive became a daily practice in patience, new discoveries, and embracing life’s impermanence.
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The writer’s garden which became filled with the exotic, otherworldly beauty of orchids.
PHOTO: IAN NG
Ian Ng
A pink-and-purple sea of saucer-shaped orchid blooms struck me the moment I entered the Singapore Garden Festival’s marketplace in 2022.
But it was the one with broad, pointed petals that I was drawn irresistibly to.
