Bauhinia × blakeana, the Hong Kong orchid tree, flowers most heavily from November to March, with sporadic blooms in warmer months. Established avenues line Cotton Tree Drive, Hong Kong Park and the Zoological and Botanical Gardens. The...
Hong Kong’s floral emblem, Bauhinia × blakeana (Hong Kong orchid tree), is a sterile hybrid that delivers deep pinkish-purple, camel-like blooms from November through March, with a noticeable peak in February. More than 1,200 specimen...
Signature Spring Blooms: March to May Spring is the peak season for Hong Kong’s flowering trees, with several native and exotic species reaching full bloom. The Hong Kong orchid tree (Bauhinia × blakeana), the city’s floral emblem,...
Hong Kong supports over 300 native and exotic tree species, many chosen for their impressive floral displays. Understanding bloom periods helps gardeners and visitors time their viewings or select trees for year-round colour. The city’s...
Bauhinia × blakeana, the Hong Kong orchid tree, is the city’s floral emblem. A sterile hybrid first discovered on the island around 1880, it produces large, magenta-pink, orchid-shaped blossoms from November to March, with the heaviest...
Plants — Photo: Unsplash Actaea simplex and the architecture of late summer crescendo The first cool evening of August sweeps into the garden like a premonition. The sun still warms the brick paths by midday, but by eight o’clock a...
Plants — Photo: Unsplash On the West Side of Manhattan, where the disused elevated railway meets the midsummer sky, a haze of bronze feathers rises three feet above the gravel. It is the first week of July, and Foeniculum vulgare...
Plants — Photo: Unsplash The light in late January arrives sideways, a pale pewter that spills across frosted lawns and catches the pendulous heads of hellebores as though illuminating a secret. At Great Dixter in East Sussex, the famous...
Plants — Photo: Unsplash There is a particular quality of light in the second week of August that seems to bypass the eyes and land directly on the skin. The sun, lower now than it was at solstice, throws long shadows across the gravel...
Plants — Photo: Unsplash On a sweltering July afternoon, when the air shimmers with heat and the garden’s earlier exuberance has begun to soften at the edges, one plant stands unbowed. The sea holly – *Eryngium* – lifts its...
