OK. No need for this today –
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Not sure if the anti-ageing properties are having much effect!
Today may have rather more photos as tomorrow is a travelling day.
Off to one of the best gardens in the world –
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Down by the Waikato River which runs along the gardens –
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Each garden is secluded and has its own little biosphere. Gordon manoeuvring the umbrella to enter the Japanese garden –
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Bamboo and a view through a window Japanese styal –
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A dragon turtle –
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A very simplistic east coast California garden with Marilyn Monroe –
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This was planted out to replicate some of the early gardens in India –
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Can’t remember what this was but it’s very beautiful –
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A lovely Welcome Swallow on top of one of the statues –
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Two views of the New Zealand garden –
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Then this majestic male California Quail –
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Oh I just loved this flower dripping after the rain –
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A person hand clipping the box hedge bit by bit in the Tudor Garden –
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Magnificent sun flowers –
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Into the kitchen garden –
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With its very structural globe artichokes –
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Not sure of the significance of this Odyssey –
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But this afternoon tea with musical accompaniment was laid out on the tennis court for the Garden Party –
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Then we went along to the Rose Garden where the perfume was amazing –
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Beautiful –
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The remnants of the rain –
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On into the Victorian glass house –
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With a stark warning –
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Pretty –
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Then onto the –
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Which housed some photographs you’re not allowed to take pictures of. Then a view of a Maori canoe –
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And some intricate carvings –
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There was also an area dedicated to all who had fallen in WW1 and there were many. This stained glass window shows some of the conflict –
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Then spotted this in the car park –
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