Water Lily Garden, At Changi Airport

From Cacti let us go to Water Lilies! And we are still inside Singapore's Changi Airport. Oh yes, this is or was still part of my roaming around the vastness of this airport while in transit from Bali to Cebu!

This 'Water Lily Garden' is more accessible than the 'Cactus Garden'. You don't need to go up or down anything as it's just at concourse level, near the duty free stores and coffee shops, also of Terminal 1.
But mind you, everything about this garden are real vegetation (plants / water). Walang plastikan dito!

Although also a real 'open air' garden, this one is probably just a fifth of the size of the Cactus Garden.
That said, this garden always has a crowd of people around (passengers and airport employees) even at midnight down to the wee hours. It is hard to snap a wider-view picture of this place na walang tao!

Good I got a photo of the garden description, so it's easier to 'paint' a picture of this place. Here goes:

Changi Airport's Water Lily Garden features water lilies and other related plants. In a natural aquatic garden environment. The garden's design is inspired by waves of water and undulating shape of the water lily leaf. The meandering tiled walkways resemble radiating ripples on water after a pebble has
been tossed into a pond. The garden shelters are in the shape of the water lily leaf.

Plants featured in the garden have adapted to freshwater aquatic environment where they grow as water margin, submerged or as floating plants. Scientifically referred as Hydrophytes, these plants have the Aerenchyma - a spongy tissue which keeps them afloat and enables them to flourish in oxygen-poor soils.

Many aquatic plants are used as food. Examples include the Lotus, Rice and Yam. The Water Hyacinth is used as animal feed and for water reclamation. The Screwpine is used as construction material for houses, flavoring and food wrapping, weaving baskets and clothes.

Aquatic vegetation is important for stabilizing land along rivers, ponds and lakes, creating water catchment and generating organic material needed by fishes and animals, as well as to oxygenate water. Aquatic plants support a wide diversity of wildlife by providing spawning, refuge and foraging grounds for may fishes and animals that are important in the food chain.
Nice that many things in this garden are labeled - for added knowledge on top of appreciating nature.
Aliw din, actually. Like that thing labeled 'Pontederia Cordata' also grows in our backyard, but has cute purple-colored flowers. Then there's 'water gentian'.., and I said in my mind "saan kaya dyan"? Hahaha!

So Water Lily is Nymphae spp and Lotus is Nelumbo Nucifera.., ah okay, magkaiba pala yun!

Anyway, did I / do I like this Water Lily Garden in Changi Airport? Well, yes na yes na yes! Why?
Ah eh, hindi ko pa nga naman nabanggit sa taas.., but just like the Cactus Garden at the roof deck, this Water Lily Garden is also a Smoking Area whahahaha! Also nearest to Gate C11. Imagine that! Di ba?!

Let's go to other wonderful places.., in this airport.., in my next story!

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