Swain Gardens
This is a "secret" garden not known to many except locals as it is not visible from the street so you have to know where to go, and we have visited this garden many times over the years and taken many interesting photos there.
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Kambah Community Garden
The Kambah Community Garden is located near the Kambah District Park which also has remnants of the old Kambah homestead.
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Bebeah
Bebeah is a 5 hectare garden at Mt Wilson featuring an extensive strolling path featuring many varieties of flowering plants, and a semi formal Italianate design including a lake.
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Mayfield Garden
Mayfield was established in 1984 by the Hawkins family, initially as a sheep farm.
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Yengo Sculpture Garden
Yengo is a garden at Mt Wilson featuring sculptures by English sculptors Judith Holmes Drewry and Lloyd le Blanc.
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Japan: Hamarikyu Garden
Hamarikyu Gardens is a special garden with a tidal pond and a chequered history, located at the mouth of the Sumida River as it enters Tokyo Bay.
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Japan: Okayama Castle and Korakuen
Okayama Castle is another reconstructed castle (the original was destroyed in World War II by air raids). Nearby is Korakuen which is regarded as one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan.
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A Bee Forever Foraging
This bee was making its away around the centre of a massiv sunflower, seemingly on an endless quest.
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Galactic Centre
They say the Galactic Centre contains many stars, all revolving around a supermassive black hole, surrounded by interstellar dust and molecular gas. Some stars explode and become supernovae, generating relativistic jets (beams of ionised matter).
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Get a room
These two flowers almost look as if they are tenderly touching and caressing each other.
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Interleaved
The branches of these pine trees at Yengo intersect and interleave to form a lattice that reaches up to the sky.
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Lunch Stop
This bee makes a brief stop on a blue flower as part of its journey.
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Playing with water
This ibis drinks from water on top of a sculpture at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney.
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Start of a Journey
The Road goes ever on. Will you be my companion?
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Bridge Reflection
Bluestone Bridge, Water Garden, Mayfield captured in autumn.
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Garden Reflection
A clever design in this sculpture removes the photographer from the reflection.
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Green Reflection
The green hedge at the back of this fountain and pool is captured nicely as a reflection.
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Lake Reflection
Windyridge Garden, in Mt Wilson - the lake in the evening.
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Pool Reflection
An illusion built into the design of this pool makes it seem the pool is actually part of a larger lake (situated below this pool).
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Tree Reflection
The magnificent Water Garden at Mayfield in NSW, captured in autumn. On the left is the red Japanese inspired bridge, on the right the Bluestone bridge and waterfall.
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Royal Botanic Gardens with the Voigtländer Nokton 40mm 1:1.2 and Sony α7R
These pictures were taken at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney.
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Series: Floriade 2020
In 2020, Floriade has been reimagined (due to COVID-19) with the celebration moving from its traditional home in Commonwealth Park to bloom across Canberra.
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