Eugenia oleina for topiary

To kick off revisiting this blog, I have these pictures taken a few days ago to show the use of colourful foliages in urban landscaping.  The cone-shaped tree is the ever popular Eugenia oleina and they are surrounded by trimmed bushes of colourful foliages for added appeal and aesthetics, besides engineering functions i.e. as road dividers.

Yellow Saraca flowers

On a stretch of road at Taman BDC I came across these beautiful yellow blooms of the Yellow Saraca ( Saraca thaipingensis). This is a short tree and grows very slowly. Therefore I think this species is ideal for house gardens, small roads and parks. The flowers are fragrant.

CU of the Yellow Saraca flowers, that typicaly offshot from older branches.