Most of us have heard of or seen pictures of cherry blossoms by now. Japan is particularly famous for it.
The fragility and the ephemeral beauty of life, that’s what the Japanese see in their treasured sakura. The cherry blossom season is fleeting but powerful, and that is why it is so coveted; that is what gives it meaning.
It is probably this cultural significance that makes the association of cherry blossoms with Japan so thick. In actual fact, you can see them in many countries including those in Asia like China, Korea and India, the USA and many European nations such as Brazil, the UK and Germany.
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And guess what, Singapore is not on that list and probably never will be.
But we do have something similar.
What’s Pink, Local and in Full Bloom?
One word: bougainvillaeas
Just kidding. Please keep your machetes and AK-47s, we wouldn’t do that to you.
The flowers we are talking about are actually quite beautiful and unique.
Tabebuia rosea
Or rose-coloured trumpet trees, named after the trumpet-shaped flowers.
According to Mothership.sg:
“The trumpet trees are a South African species that bloom when the rain comes after a period of dry weather.
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“Recent occasional rain after a few weeks of a dry spell in February and March has probably triggered this spectacular mass blooming.”
This is a spectacular bit of information that I was hard-pressed to find because searching it up just gives Google a chance to flood me with web pages full of trumpet trees taken around Singapore.
Here are some of those pictures and their locations
Straight from NPark’s Facebook page:
Location: Ulu Pandan Park Connector
Photo credit: Yeow Jie Ying
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Location: North Buona Vista Road
Photo credit: Mervyn Tan
For a change, we have another tree with pretty pink flowers. Here’s the Lagerstroemia sp. or crepe myrtle.
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Location: Along Tampines Road
Photo credit: Ling Kin Joo
And if all that pink is not to your taste, behold the Tabebuia pallida. After all, cherry blossoms come in white too.
Location: West Coast Park
Photo credit: Mervyn Tan
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Hopefully, with all the locations listed, you’ll have a chance to see these blossoms in person.
No need to travel to Japan, right?
No choice, more like.
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