Monet's Water Lilies

Water Lilies

Water Lilies One of the blue flowers, tropical water lilies have complex interiors with little match stick stamens.When one looks up Water Lilies, the first retrieval is about Claude Monet's water lilies paintings.  He did a series of 250 oil paintings and they are on display in museums all over the world.  These paintings are considered influential to many of the following generations of artists, and they are widely recognized and appreciated by the public.

Lotus - A magic flower

This is one of my favourite flowers - Lotus.  It is the beautiful centre that I so enjoy.  This Lotus is at Coles Nursery in Grimsby, where I live.  Blooming in a pot, it is easy to get close, too.

Waiting for the Lotus to Bloom

I am lucky to have a great garden centre just down the street from me, in fact, in walking distance.  It has a pond store across the street from the trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals.  I noticed the lotus the other day and it looks like it might bloom this week.  It got me started on lotuses.  I saw more last year than ever before.  They are not hardy in my zone - they are hardy in the Philadelphia area - and Chanticleer has a beautiful pond of lotus.  I also saw a beautiful stand at Lotusland in Pasadena.

Here are a few from last year - I was lucky to get some pretty lighting and be able to get close enough for a macro image of the lotus centre.