About Community In Bloom Programme Best Visiting Time: Community In Bloom (CIB) is a programme Early morning (before 9 am) or evening (after launched by National Parks Board (NParks) in 5 pm) when the community gardeners are usually 2005. It aims to nurture a gardening culture present. Special arrangements for garden visits among Singaporeans by encouraging and can be made with the respective Residents’ facilitating community gardening efforts. It is also Committee-in-charge. an opportunity to build community bonds and strengthen social resilience. Garden Visit Etiquette: • Ask the gardeners for assistance if you would like some plant cuttings such as Butterfly Pea and Roselle, which are grown on the perimeter of the community garden. Bukit Gombak-Hong • Help keep the plants healthy for all to enjoy by not damaging them. Kah North • Gardeners have put in many hours of hard work to grow the crops. Return their kindness by Community Garden Trail offering them seed packs or volunteering to help out with gardening activities. Supporting Partners: Bukit Gombak-Hong Kah North Community Gardens
Bukit Gombak Goodview Hong Kah North Zone 1 RC Garden RC Blk 419 Bukit Batok West Blk 387 Bukit Batok West Avenue 2 #01-213 Avenue 5 #01-382 Singapore 650419 Singapore 650387 Tel: 65673130 Tel: 65150073 Hong Kah North Zone 3 RC Bukit Gombak Guilin RC Blk 319 Bukit Batok Street 33 Blk 535 Bukit Batok Street 52 #01-52 #01-667 Singapore 650319 Singapore 650535 Tel: 65673130 Tel: 65150074 Hong Kah North Zone 4 RC Bukit Gombak Hillgrove RC Blk 329 Bukit Batok Street 33 Blk 510 Bukit Batok Street 52 #01-89 #01-13 Singapore 650329 Hong Kah North CO Bukit Gombak CO Singapore 650510 Tel: 65673130 Tel: 65150074 Hong Kah North Zone 5 RC Bukit Gombak Sunshine RC Blk 350 Bukit Batok Street 34 For more information, visit our website: Come discover your Blk 531 Bukit Batok Street 51 #01-114 www.nparks.gov.sg/cib #01-122 Singapore 650350 Alternatively, email us to find out more. neighbourhood Singapore 650531 Tel: 65673130 Email: [email protected] Tel: 65150074 Hong Kah North Zone 6 RC community gardens Blk 369 Bukit Batok Street 31 For more information on plants, visit NParks Flora&FaunaWeb: #01-525 florafaunaweb.nparks.gov.sg Singapore 650369 Tel: 65673130 Biodiversity Plants Edible Plants
Singapore Rhododendron (Melastoma malabathricum)
Over the years, the Community in Bloom Small - leafed Oil Fruit White Bittergourd (CIB) programme has worked with Town Tomato (Elaeocarpus mastersii) (Solanum esculentum) (Momordica charantia) Councils, Residents’ Committees (RC) and Neighbourhood Committees (NC) to set up community gardens where residents can enjoy gardening, as well as bond with their neighbours.
Community gardeners in the Bukit Gombak Division and Hong Kah North SMC benefit from having their gardens located near to the Tengah Nature Way. The rich Scarlet Spiral Flag biodiversity found in the Nature Way (Costus woodsonii) increases pollination of fruiting and flowering plants as well as acts as biological control for pests. Community Red Lady’s finger Brinjal gardens with biodiversity-attracting plants False Bird of Paradise (Abelmoschus esculentus) (Solanum melongena) draw more species of birds, butterflies and (Heliconia cultivars) small mammals.
South West Community Development Council (CDC) is home to over 250 community gardens located across housing estates, schools and organizations. The CDC supports community gardening through its 1,000,000 Native Plants @ Passionfruit Sweet Potato South West seed funding programme that Red Leea Spicate Eugenia (Passiflora edulis) (Ipomoea batatas) (Leea rubra) (Syzygium zeylanicum) helps to set up new gardens in the district. Bukit Gombak – Hong Kah North Community Garden Trail
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This is a peaceful garden set within a The garden is an interesting mix of vegetables and butterfly attracting buzzing neighbourhood. Meet flowering ornamentals. Its fruiting residents who enjoy gathering here to Map is not catch up on the latest news amidst the vegetables are especially productive, in drawn to scale no small part owed to the pollinators Yellow Cosmos (Cosmos sulphureus) attracted. One can expect to healthy and Red Button Ginger (Costus looking varieties of bitter gourds and woodsonii). legumes growing in the garden. Blk 535 Bukit Batok Street 52 Blk 390 Bukit Batok West Ave 5 Bukit Gombak Guilin RC / PCF Bukit Gombak Goodview B H Sparkletots @ BG535 Garden RC
Preschool students love visiting this garden to learn about our native flora Gardeners of this large green space practice mixed planting with edibles and fauna. The garden attracts a and biodiversity-attracting plants such variety of butterflies and birds thanks as passion fruits, tomatoes and to its mix of well-selected nectar and different types of leafy greens. This host plants such as Ranong (Asystasia results in a regular bountiful harvest nemorum) and Giant Milkweed that is shared among the community. (Calotropis gigantea).
Blk 336 Bukit Batok Street 32 Blk 405 Bukit Batok West Ave 7 Blk 310 Bukit Batok Street 31 Blk 531 Bukit Batok Street 51 Along Bukit Batok Street 52 C Hong Kah North Zone 4 RC D Hong Kah North Zone 1 RC E Hong Kah North Zone 3 RC F Bukit Gombak Sunshine RC G Tengah Nature Way
Teachers and students from St. Tucked away in a corner of the estate This community garden welcomes its You will find both an allotment edible Tengah Nature Way links Bukit Timah Anthony's Primary School work with is this soothing patch of greenery next visitors with a tastefully planted front garden and a bonsai garden here. and Central Catchment Nature residents to cultivate the plots. They are to the Bukit Batok Hillside Park. dominated by ornamentals such as Passion fruit grows among green leafy Reserves with the Western Catchment often visited by native birds such as the Gardeners often enjoy the songs of the Dwarf Mexican Petunia (Ruellia vegetables while pots of colourful with more than 80 species of trees and Yellow-vented Bulbul and Olive-backed native birds around as they harvest the simplex). Upon entering it, one is flowering plants play hosts to shrubs. It is a nature trail, where hikers Sunbird while tending to their long bananas and jambu found in the surprised by the sight of an enclave pollinators like Plain Tiger and can learn more about our native flora beans and leafy greens. garden. filled with leafy and fruiting vegetables. Common Grass Yellow. and fauna, while enjoying the greenery and fresh air.