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Looking good in the gardens now

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Thanks to some great weather this month our waterlilies and iris are well advanced and blooming more each day. The flora and fauna are starting to emerge in the ponds alongside the waterlilies dragonflies and damselflies can now be seen.

Yellow Flag Iris and Waterlilies
Yellow Flag Iris and Waterlilies (Iris pseudacorus & Nymphaea ‘Froebelii’).
Iris ‘Ally Oops’
Iris ‘Ally Oops’ – this hybrid is species cross between Siberian Iris and Yellow flag Iris (Iris sibirica X Iris pseadacorus).
Damselfly emerging on waterlily
Damselfly emerging on a waterlily (Nymphaea ‘Pink Sensation’) in the ponds.
Waterlilies and wedding gazebo
Waterlilies (Nymphaea ‘Sioux’ ) in front of the wedding gazebo.
Waterlily and Monet bridge
Waterlily (Nymphaea ‘Marliacea Carnea’) and Monet bridge

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