The lotus are blooming at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, now through early August. We stopped by midday on Sunday, June 17, and saw less the 20 people! The Gardens are open 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years' Day. [Click on any photo to enlarge or right click to open photo in a new window.]
Member Bill Dean gave up the camera for one photo next to a lotus pond.
In case this year repeats last year's drought, the ponds between the headquarters and the marsh have been kept flooded and walking is limited to the major gravel pathways.
Bill got fairly close to a blue heron fishing in the flooded ponds. [Be sure to click on the heron for a close up view.]
Lotus are very invasive, now occupying just over half the ponds. Kenilworth gardeners may need to make a major intervention in the next several years to preserve the hardy water lily ponds.
The tropical water lilies are in concrete ponds immediately behind the headquarters building.
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