Tampines Eco Park

This route encompass two parks. The first one is Sunplaza Park. The second one is the actual Eco Park. The route starts from Tampines MRT and ends at the same place.

This Yellow-vein Eranthemum grows along the Tampines PC at Tampines Ave 4.

This one on the same PC looks like a pine tree but I cannot find the correct name for it.

Sunplaza Park is a small park. It does have the basic facilities like a water fountain for drinking. Unfortunately, there isn't many flowering plants for me to take picture of.

This Wild Betel grows besides the path near Tampines Ave 9.

Crossing Tampines Ave 9 and the Eco park is just across the road. This park is unique due to the eco design. There is a sign board that tells you more about it.

To begin with, the path in the park is not the metaled or pebbled road. It is covered with fine grass. This makes you feel like walking in real nature. Even the drain is not made of concrete. It is all natural. You can even find ground creeper plants trying to take over the road surface and the drains.

The very first flower that greets visitors is this Red Penda. It looked like the Red Powderpuff but is more rugged looking. If you look carefully, it is a cluster made from a few flowers.

This exotic colored Blue Strawberry Flowers is the only one I saw since I started visiting parks.

There were plenty of Red Leea growing there.

This nice purple color Chinese Violet is some plant that you cannot miss.

Instead of taking a picture on the front of the big sign, I choose to take it from the back because the plants were grown at the back instead of the front. It is made of wood. 

The Yellow Cosmos in contrast makes you want to move over and have a look.

At some place among the Yellow Cosmos you can find the nice pinkish Wild Cosmos growing besides it.

This Putat Kampung flower sure look like white beard.

It is actually formed by a cluster of flowers as seen dropped on the ground.

The Gomphrena Weed flower is so small that all the pictures are blurred when I tried to zoom in to max to take a larger picture.

The Wild Jasmine is also quite hard to capture on photo.

If you look down along the path, you can see that even the sign boards are made of wood. 

When I was young, this Buah Cheri tree is a sweet fruit tree free of charge. 

You can never miss this Pagoda Flower. It is so bright colored that you will notice it far away.

In contrast the small Wild Tamarind flower provides a different view. It took a long time to focus with the zoom as the wind keeps blowing on it.

Further down the path, there is no flowering plant worth taking pictures. On the return leg of the loop, I find some wooden structured fence and don't quite catch what it is used for.

Across the path behind where I took the picture, it is even more puzzling to see some concrete pillars wound with ropes. It looked like a KungFu play ground.

Looking ahead you can see plenty of dead trees. I wonder why.

Walking further down, I come across this Blue Rush growing near a pool of water. It feels like a rotan when I touch it.

This tree flower looks like bottle brush but is white color. I could not find its name.

This Crinum Lily looks mysterious when taken with darker exposure.

I seldom take picture of toilets. This one is an exception. It is an eco toilet. There is no facility to flush or wash your hand inside. You have to come out and wash on a tap (without sink) outside. There is a sign board describing how it works. According to my companion who used the toilet. It is quite smelly and there is only one toilet inside. 

With the toilet visit, the return path is exactly the same as the incoming path thus no other picture is taken. The whole route is about 4.6 KM.

The route map is available here.

The full album picture is here.