Wellington Waterlily's - Cam Theme - 52

Every city, I'm sure, has a Botanic Garden/s...
Wellington, New Zealand is no different.

In our Botanic garden - you will find a number of interesting sub and themed gardens.
The Lady Norsewood Rose garden is a popular area and starting pont for an afternoon of walking the tracks to explore and find some interesting corners - maybe even a few sculptures - some new, some old, and definitely some famous...

The Gardens themselves began in 1844, and were established in 1865 - even growing in size by the 1870's. Nowadays, definitely worth a visit at any time of the year.

At the Begonia House you'll find a café and two sections - one for tropical plants (which incorporates the waterlily pond) and another for temperate plants - namely many types of Begonias, but that will be another CAM-theme...

Enjoy this 'trip' of pictures of waterlily's from the Begonia House waterlily pond...

There are a number of photo sets in this "CAM" and one guest pic.
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This blog post will have a few double pictures to some posts.

I was enamoured with the striking colour and vibrancy of the blue waterlily.




Some of them - even beckoning me to lean far over the water to explore them further with my camera and balance...

I like how the leaves/pads of the waterlily seem to hover on the water in seemingly perpetual motion, but going nowhere...

I thought I would try and get a different perspective of the waterlily pond in the Begonia House of the Wellington botanic gardens...

Leaning over at a precarious angle, nearly got me tipped into the pond.
Thankfully, my wife was near enough to grab me by my belt...


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Another set of two choices...

These white waterlily's are nowhere near the huge size of the giant Amazon waterlily species - I think they must flower at another time of the year in the Begonia House, so will have to return at some stage to capture them with my lens.

simplicity is a single yellow waterlily...

These are closer up photos of the lily's you'll see in the next post.

Again, I couldn't decide which of the two white waterlily photos I prefer, so include them both...

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A nice little meander - around the Begonia House's waterlily pond.

Interestingly enough, and depending on what season of the year you visit the Wellinton botanic gardens, the pond is heated between 23 and 27 degrees celcius...

Very cosy for the myriad of tropical fish in the pond who's job it is to keep the algae down.
I wonder what happens to them if they don't keep the algae in the pond down?

I'm not sure about this photo of the waterlily pads...

Well... there were no frogs (or fairies) to be seen frolicking that day in the Begonia House's Waterlily Pond.

It's a difficult choice again as to which two of these waterlily's I wanted to show....

The vertical blue waterlily I think migh just be my favourite.

Something about this watery plant and its white flowers appeals to me...

I like the 'fluidity' and semi abstract 'feel' to it - and wouldn't have a clue as to what flower it is.

GUEST PHOTO: ...

This one of Lake Vänern in winter - comes from my old school pal, Warwick Anderson - who now lives in Sweden...

From Warwick: "This photo was taken on the 7th Feb at 1:16:07pm.
On the edge of the archepelago off Kållandsö (get this: Gabbagpatch Island) on the great lake of Vänern in Sweden which covers an area of 5,655km2.
We had walked out onto the 15cm thick ice cover of the lake, which was carpeted by an endless layer of 30cm deep snow. The idea behind it was to clear a track and do some ice-skating.
The thick mist just seemed to blend into the horizon and it was hard to tell where the lake ended and the sky started."

Check out the Lake Vanern website for more info...

... :GUEST PHOTO