The Zingiberales order is a large and diverse group of flowering plants with important economic, medicinal, food and ornamental uses. This order contains eight families of plants, which includes many familiar plants such as the cooking ginger, tumeric and galangal. Tropical garden ornamentals such as heliconis, brids of paradise and cannas belong to this order too. How much do you know about them? Come and listen to learn more about this amazing order of plants, their cultivation and landscape uses.

Speaker: Mr Wilson Wong

About Speaker
Mr Wilson Wong is the Founder and Administrator of Green Culture Singapore.
He is both an apartment and outdoor gardener and his gardening interests
encompass indoor plants, vegetables and herbs, carnivorous plants and tropical
plants such as Heliconia and gingers. He is also the Founder and Leader of the
new community garden in Serangoon North Ave 2. Wilson is also a regular
contributor of gardening articles to AsiaOne.com, NPark's garden blog - Garden
Voices, the Home Concepts magazine and the Root Awakening in Straits Times’
Life! section.