About
This is the official website for the CIB group which meets on Friday mornings at the Singapore Hortpark.
What is grown at our garden patch? There are many flowers and herbs that have been cultivated over a one year period.
– there are sunflowers
sunflowers
– there are cosmos and herbs
overview of the plants grown in the patch
cosmos flowers
herbs such as basil, mint, bachelor buttons and ginger leaf
We are located next to the garden exhibit that features a car as a planter.
car with plants growing inside, located next to our garden patch
Our GPS location is N 1deg 16.745′ E 103deg 47.904′
hortpark singapore cib on friday 
the edible cosmos is called ULAM RAJA which is eaten raw or dipped in samba belancha chilli or thousand island dressing. it’s nutritious and reputed for strengthening the bones and aiding bowel movements.
there is also the wild black sesame which are flowering now in mauve tubulur flowers. the flowers after pollination would form into seedpods that contain the black sesame seeds.
it’s an annual. the plants would eventually die after seeding. propagation is by seeds.