Beautiful colour and waterlilies are one of my favourite flowers. I have tried painting them in watercolour but I find them difficult. Monet has perfected them!
I lost all my waterlilies in the pond a couple of years ago. I have just replaced them this year. I love waterlilies. I have never seen red ones in the wild before.
Rosie, I have often found red flowers especially difficult both in painting and in photography. With these water lilies I zoomed them in from a distance so actually had no idea how they would come out until I got them up on the computer screen at home. They are 'straight out of the camera' shots, though - no editing.
Graham, I'm not sure these can be said to be "in the wild" either, as they grow in the city centre. As a child, I remember being told that red water lilies (in Sweden) only grew in a special lake in Tiveden, a national park further north in the same county where I still live. Whether ours here have come here "naturally" or been planted, I don't know. But as far as I can remember, I think they've been growing in the river by the town park for as long as I've lived here (30+ years).
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Gorgeous!! We have to drive for hours to find anything like this.
they are gorgeous.
Beautiful colour and waterlilies are one of my favourite flowers. I have tried painting them in watercolour but I find them difficult. Monet has perfected them!
Beautiful!
I lost all my waterlilies in the pond a couple of years ago. I have just replaced them this year. I love waterlilies. I have never seen red ones in the wild before.
Beautiful - they almost look pink from here.
Rosie, I have often found red flowers especially difficult both in painting and in photography. With these water lilies I zoomed them in from a distance so actually had no idea how they would come out until I got them up on the computer screen at home. They are 'straight out of the camera' shots, though - no editing.
Graham, I'm not sure these can be said to be "in the wild" either, as they grow in the city centre. As a child, I remember being told that red water lilies (in Sweden) only grew in a special lake in Tiveden, a national park further north in the same county where I still live. Whether ours here have come here "naturally" or been planted, I don't know. But as far as I can remember, I think they've been growing in the river by the town park for as long as I've lived here (30+ years).
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