Many visitors to the Singapore Botanic Gardens (SBG) will be underwhelmed, perhaps because of a tendency to treat the gardens as a natural site. Gardening in essense, is an incorporation of natural and human elements - no surprise also that the State Party submitted the nomination as a Cultural Landscape. It is admirable how this area remained intact despite the many pressures to urbanize - this is already an outstanding achievement in itself.

I have hopes that the evaluation result later in 2015 will favor Singapore's first UNESCO World Heritage nomination.