Singaporean Kenneth Lim has held a smorgasbord of high-level jobs in companies from Microsoft to Salesforce, SAP and Trend Micro in a career spanning 27 years.

For the computing and software graduate, gardening is his primary mechanism to destress, away from the fast-paced, always-on tech world. “Gardening started as a hobby, and it has always been an escape for me,” he says.

The interest is one that has been passed down through generations. His maternal grandfather, Ng Aik Huan, was an orchid enthusiast with a special interest in the cattleya variety, which he grew in the garden of his Good Class Bungalow (GCB) on Nassim Road.

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A prominent businessman and philanthropist, Ng co-founded Asia Insurance Co; he also revamped Thong Chai Medical Institution, as he believed Chinese medicine should be included in today’s medical research. With Tan Kah Kee, a fellow businessman and philanthropist, Ng raised money to build Nanyang University.