Supertrees!

[treeseer]

So whaddya do when you're on the equator, have $1 billion to build a garden, and are persuaded that fullsized trees cannot be grown in urban areas??

 

Simple--just build them out of steel and epiphytes!

 

Singapore's Gardens by the Bay just opened yesterday. The future?

[David Humphries]

Looks like a cross between Blade runner & Avatar

 

 

Would be interesting to know how many plants have been used, what percentage are from the region & what the eventual effect on the local biodiversity is going to be

 

 

 

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[treeseer]

Looks like a cross between Blade runner & Avatar

 

 

Would be interesting to know how many plants have been used, what percentage are from the region & what the eventual effect on the local biodiversity is going to be

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Plants from all over incl. a 32 tonne baobab from Senegal. The mind reels at the cost; like Queen Hatsheput going after frankincense from Sudan, and then some. On the supertree/towers there are many regional but yes many from other tropical areas.

 

The garden is a long way from native habitats, as there is a big city in between.

 

Did the stocking of Kew affect England's biodiversity?

[David Humphries]

Did the stocking of Kew affect England's biodiversity?

 

I know not in answer to the above, but it does have an effect on the local biodiversity 'currently' as they are spraying out the lepidoptera species to control the spread of oak processionary moth.

 

 

The garden is a long way from native habitats, as there is a big city in between.

 

 

 

Native habitats do get colonised, with species adapting & existing within the heart of the metropilis, do they not?

 

Central Park, Hyde Park, Jardin du Luxembourg etc.......

even Hampstead Heath with its 7 million footfalls each year had an extended visit from the rare Bittern this year

 

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[treeseer]

Ah well i have not seen much of the native habitat in the heart of the metropolis here, but you may well be right. much water and hardscape between this garden and any other park, but nature has ways of spreading, you are right, and thank God for that!