As opposed to the botanic garden in Oslo, Singapore Botanic Gardens don't need greenhouses to host plants requiring a tropical climate (I bet that came as a huge surprise ...).
Admittance is free, and the area is big enough for more than a day of photography. People interested in plants can probably spend even more time, while the rest of us will probably find it a nice pastime for a few hours. There's an entire section dedicated to orchids (admittance is SGD 5 for adults, SGD 1 for children), and that's where Sven, Paul and I went.
Before I got to the orchids, though, I noticed an insect that I'm completely unfamiliar with. My first reaction was "small colibri", then "no, that's a beetle", then "no, that's a bumble... erh, I don't know what it is!".
That insect is about 5 cm long. If anyone knows what the insect is called, feel free to edit this page. 
I didn't find much that I thought was worth photographing on the way to the orchid garden, and on the way from it, I was basically fed up. There were lots of these, however:
The National Orchid Garden
The crane fountain greets us as we enter, but it isn't exactly covered in a cascade of orchids.
Now for a bunch of photos. I actually tried to cut it down a lot ...
The Mist House
It wasn't misty in there, so I suspect the name has another meaning that I'm unaware of.
The Cool House
This is actually a greenhouse, but it's cooled off to provide the correct temperature for several plants that otherwise wouldn't thrive in Singapore's natural climate.
Outside the Cool House
Yup, that's a bromeliad, the same family of trees that you get pineapples from. I'm not sure whether this actually is a pineapple bromeliad or not.