This year's Tatton soundtrack might have to include: It only happens when it rains, raindrops keep falling on my head, singing in the rain... I could go on, so please let me know if you have any less clichéd suggestions. But, there's no getting away from it, the weather for the build up has been truly appalling. It's been a challenge for the show organisers, garden designers, nursery folk and TV crews alike. High-vis jacket-wearing was extended the full duration of press day yesterday as conditions got muddier.
But against such odds, they have all delivered a fantastic flower show, sunshine bright with colour. And somehow, against the wet, slate-coloured skies, the plants of high summer seem all the more vibrant. From show gardens to nursery stands, the stars of the show are easily gem-like crocosmias in a glorious range of orange shades from tangerine to gold; flat heads of raspberry ripple achilleas are also stand out performers.
But my favourite plant combination today was the gorgeously delicate Agrostis nebulosa with Astrantia 'Roma' - a fuzzy cloud of bronze grass with jewel-like blooms just peeping through, unfazed by the downpours, raindrops glistening prettily as the sun re-emerged.
Camilla Phelps, Gardening Editor
Beautiful natural water garden with water lilies, lotus flowers and water plants and of course a rich aquatic life. A garden of water plants is easy and beautiful to have. All you need is ample clean fresh water and a natural soil suitable for a fertile living water garden. Clay is the best soil as it seals the water and thus prevents loss of water.
Keep however in mind that a water garden also may present a danger do small children as kids may drown in even shallowest water.
Some of Cambodian lily ponds are just made for beauty and never for commercial harvesting of any kind. This water garden has a wide variety of different colored water lilies. Currently blossoming only are the lotus flowers. All the small round leaves you see however are all kinds of water lilies to blossom later in the year.
Water garden or lily ponds are an ideal place to relax, to meditate or to observe nature with its rich life forms around water. Hence a water garden also is ideal for children to play. If large enough a water garden such as the one here with more than one hectare in size, easily can handle children walking thru the water and observing aquatic life.
In album Lotus flowers
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