Thursday 17 February 2022

The reward of beauty

For Valentine's Day, I picked up a meal box from Botanic House to have with the family at home. Botanic House is in the centre of the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens. An easy park then stroll through the glorious gardens was just what I needed to lift my spirits.










While ordering a meal box is not something I'd regularly do anymore, I do need to find time to get to the Gardens a bit more. It was so lovely. 

While the Bay Run is good for ease and speed, the change of scenery is very uplifting, as it engages the brain in a different way.
It was lovely to see all the flowers in bloom on a sunny day. A world away from my normal universe. 


The waterlillies were in full bloom and glorious.


Linking with #Allseasons  #DND #GardenAffair #FridayBliss 


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20 comments:

  1. ...the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens looks beautiful!

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  2. A lovely collection from the Royal botanic gardens. The lotus photos are wonderful.
    Have a great day!

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  3. I'm loving the first photo of flowers, not sure what they are though but I recognize the others well.

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  4. Hello,
    Great collection of photos, the flowers are gorgeous. Love the view of the bridge. Take care, enjoy your day!

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  5. Stunning floral photos and the Sydney Opera house is amazing!

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  6. Loved seeing the flowers, all so pretty!

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  7. I forgot to add that if you do link parties, I’d like to invite you to drop by and linkup at some of my parties.

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  8. Absolutely beautiful blooms all that lovely colours :-)

    Have a beautytastic week 👍

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  9. Such beautiful flowers! The Mimosa and Bird of Paradise are especially lovely. We once stayed in a hotel near the Royal Botanic Gardens on a visit to Sydney, and marveled at the fruit bats in the trees! They were giant!

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  10. The bigger photo of the pink flowers looks so fuzzy. I want to touch them. So pretty.

    There's snow on the ground here.

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  11. Lovely images and colors!
    Some flowers are spectacular.
    Thank you sharing them.
    Happy WW and a fine week!

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  12. Beautiful pictures, they put a smile on my face!

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  13. Wow ! Those are some beautiful blooms, waterlilies are beautiful . Do you know the name of flowers in third picture that looks marvelous. Thanks for sharing with Garden Affair.

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    1. I think they're the blossoms of a gumnut - if you google gumnut blossom you'll see pictures of them coming out of the nut.

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  14. Beautiful flower pictures. It's just odd to see flower picture while our landscape is covered with a huge amount of snow.

    R. Täysin arkista vol.2

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  15. Those flowers are absolutely stunning -- if I lived close to those gardens I am not sure I'd ever find the time to cook!!!! We have a few of those here in Florida (even this time of year) a, unlike the rest of the United States, we are subtropical in climate -- but some of yours I have never seen. All are beautiful.

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  16. I think they're the blossoms of a gumnut - if you google gumnut blossom you'll see pictures of them coming out of the nut. Part of Eucalypts I think?

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  17. Special flowers, those pink ones.

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