something reminded me that singapore regards itself as the garden city.

i might be mistaken.

but if it does, i’m assuming that it does so on account of the trees and greenery one sees on either side and down the middle of the ECP. and also, presumably, because we have a lot of greenery?

on the other hand, what else is so garden-like about singapore? and how is it more garden-like a city than say malaysia or vietnam?

or is it because we’re pretty and cultivated to the hilt, and completely unnatural? hybridised, cross-bred and cross-pollinated. and because it is such a controlled environment that without constant supervision by the gardeners (read ruling party), the garden will burst into its own, unheeding and unwilling to cooperate?

that’s the problem, you see, with these highly cultivated specimens. they’re so delicate and prone to failure without someone watching them all the time. and most of them don’t grow on, and their seeds don’t produce the same quality plants as they do, so you have to repeat the whole process every year using freshly-bought seed.

wouldn’t it be so much easier if it was a woodland, or field? let everything grow as they like, let nature take over for a long while. whatever happens, the land takes it in and makes do. the plants either flourish or die, in the end only the strongest and fastest evolving survive.

and all without anyone having to keep vigil. just let nature do its thing, and voila great variety of plantlife and low mortality rates, low maintenance too.

now, wouldn’t that be nice.