water lilies

The strongest splashes of colour of the year in the small wetland habitat of the garden. They bloom only a few days.

[Shutterbug]

Really beautiful on black like that.

[gloria jones]

Gorgeous image and super composition

[Junko Y]

As elegant and as beautiful as ever.

[Annie D]

beautiful flowers and beautifully photographed

[Jane Martin]

Very impressive.

[KoalaGardens🐨]

very lovely!

[Lou Ann]

A gorgeous image. They are lovely.

[Esther Rosenberg]

So beautiful.

[Elizabeth]

Striking image set on black.

[Karly]

So lovely and exotic looking.

[Louise]

Agree, very striking!

[Joanne Diochon]

Love the simplicity.

[Lynda McG]

Nicd image- fav

[mittens (Marilyn)]

A real beauty with great lighting.

[Carole Sandford]

Gorgeous image!

[Merrelyn]

Beautifully captured.

[Leon Buijs]

Great light, beautiful against the black

[Caterina]

Just wonderful. Fav

[FBailey]

A class of their own:)

[petaqui]

So awesome color and detail! Nice contrast. FAV

[Kaylynn]

Classy and beautiful

[Call me Joe]

💕💕💕

[Faye Turner]

Beautiful fav

[Milanie]

Fabulous against black

[Jerome]

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Thank you for the many nice comments!
Most of the water lilies have already faded. Sometimes I would like to stop time.
But let's enjoy summer now. :)

[Junko Y]

@Jerome in Japan, these kind of irises that bloom in water are purple. @vankrey and I enjoyed them in Japan on a few of our trips but we tend not to go in summers. One of our summer trips was a student trip of 20 high schoolers but the other a group of photography-interested adults.

[Jerome]

Thank you for your kind interest, Junko!
A purple iris also grows in the small wetland. The flowers are budding, they will bloom in a few days. This plant is about half the size of the yellow pond iris.
I would very much like to see this flower blooming in Japan... @jyokota

[Junko Y]

Taken oh-so-long-ago: https://365project.org/jyokota/challenges-and/2013-06-18 in my first year on the project and with my first SLR and it broke on this trip so the rest of my photos that trip were with my iPhone and back in 2013 the cameras on iPhones weren't that good.

[Jay]

gorgeous photo!

[Jerome]

@jaywoods Thank you, Jay, for your nice visit!

[Jerome]

@jyokota Thank you for the link to your great photo of this garden in Japan! It is always wonderful when flowers cover a large area - everything from one type of plant, but the flower colours drifting beautifully in various shades between white and violet. Gorgeous! The bamboo, which obviously delimits another area, also fits this place wonderfully. And the gardener with this white headscarf (does it have a purple hem?) becomes a blooming flower himself...
Thank you for this insight into Japan's culture. There is so much to discover in this world...

[Vesna]

Nicely done.

[Helen Jane]

I have missed so many of your wonderful photos. My time, so limited. but now I will enjoy. I really like how the greenery stands out so luscious and arranged so appealingly, then topped with the shining beacons in the flowers in that perfect trio arrangement.