Pasir Panjang Nursery

At the heart of operations for Singapore’s City in a Garden vision is the Pasir Panjang Nursery (PPN), located adjacent to HortPark.

Set up in the 1970s, the 12-hectare Pasir Panjang Nursery supplies close to 200,000 plants a year to green up Singapore’s roads and parks. It is also responsible for developing optimum propagation techniques for various plant species of ornamental, horticultural or economical value. The Nursery plays a key role in the propagation and conservation of native plant species by reintroducing our native biodiversity to Singapore’s urban areas.

The Pasir Panjang Nursery houses over 3,000 species of trees, palms, shrubs, groundcover, herbs, fruit trees and aquatic plants. In recent years, it is also focused on the propagation and introduction of fruit trees and shrubs to our parks and community gardens. This includes unique cultivars of papaya, mango and durian, as shown below. Some of these will be introduced in the park and green spaces within the upcoming Sembawang Sports and Community Hub (SSCH), when it is ready. Sembawang was historically a kampung, with small plantations and fruit trees, and Sembawang residents can look forward to seeing fruit trees at the Hub that reflect Sembawang’s past.

For more information on Pasir Panjang Nursery's fruit tree species, click here.