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The World's Best Airport Has a Horticulture Team,
A Butterfly Garden, and 500,000 Plants
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The World's Best Airport Has a Horticulture Team,
A Butterfly Garden, and 500,000 Plants
Steve Mollman
May 25, 2015
Quartz
http://qz.com/410561/the-worlds-best-airport-has-a-
horticulture-team-a-butterfly-garden-and-500000-plants/
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/lroxq39
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In March, Skytrax declared Singapore Changi Airport the worlds best
overall (for the third straight year), and the best for leisure amenities.
One reason global travelers consistently cite Changi as their favorite:
its gardens.
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Changi introduced its first garden in the early 1980s, and over the years
its become rather good at planning and maintaining them. Today it has more
than 500,000 plants, and some 250 plant species. It also produces about
3,000 plants a month in its own nursery.
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The airport features a butterfly garden, an orchid garden with a koi pond,
and an enchanted garden that combines flowers and soft ferns with
sculptures and sparkling lights. It also has outdoor gardensone for cacti,
another for sunflowersand impeccably manicured landscaping on the airport
grounds, plus along two kilometers of roads leading to it.
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To tend to all these plants, Changi employs a team of 11
horticulturalists. It outsources the landscaping work to external
contractors and vendors, who employ about 120 for the task.
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The hardest part is maintaining the indoor gardens, where lighting,
drainage, and irrigation issues present unique challenges. In the outdoors
you have all the natural elements available to you: water, sunlight, and
everything. But in an indoor setting it is an artificial environment, he
noted.
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Hameeds favorite project so far was the butterfly garden, which opened in
2008 and involved about seven months of conceptualization and a half year
of production. His team had to determine not just the right plants, but
also the best species of butterflies to survive in an airport environment.
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