PLANT lover Mary Lee is bloomin' excited. She is counting the days to next Friday, when the Singapore Garden Festival bursts on the scene for only the second time here.
The mum of two had a 'fantastic time' at the very first festival two years ago, snapping photos of beautiful gardens created by local and international landscape designers.
'I can't wait to see what the designers will be doing this time,' says Mrs Lee, 46, a housewife.
Some 200,000 visitors attended the 2006 festival and the organiser, the National Parks Board (NParks), expects just as many this year to the event at Suntec Convention Centre.
The festival, held every two years, is the largest international garden and flower show in Singapore and brings together top local and foreign award-winning landscape and garden designers, florists and horticulturists.
This year's floral fest is over eight days, two days shorter than the 2006 event. Festival director Dr Wong Wei Har explains: 'This works out better for the plants.'
Most are imported and designers have to take care they do not wilt.
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