The Waterfront Garden (Monday 5th April 2021)

During the 'stay at home' months I have been keeping a remote eye on Marlborough's Waterfront Garden via Val's Facebook page. She has reported on the resident kingfisher, the swans and cygnets, little egrets and the much welcomed return of the water voles that were there and in the adjacent Cooper's Meadow until a few years ago, and recently, even more excitingly, otters.

I took advantage of the relaxation of the rules on Easter Monday to do a Waitrose shop and visit the Waterfront Garden. I didn't see so much as a moorhen or a mallard and Val wasn't in sight to update me either. However, I could see she had been hard at work in the Garden, which is a regular award winner, and that she tends on behalf of the council, and took a set of pictures.

These cowslips are Primula veris 'Sunset Shades'. I wonder if these bulbs were planted upside down to come up red, as Miranda1008 recently reported was a traditional belief?

L.
Fri 9.4.2021 (1750 hr)

Blip #3396 (#3146 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #002
Blips/Extras In 2021 #052/266 + #028/100 Extras
Day #4029 (887 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2540 (#2381 + 159 in archived blips)

Taken with Pentax K-50 (Red) and Pentax HD P-DA 55-300 mm F4-5.8 ED WR lens

Marlborough series
Flora series
Gardens series


Marlborough Waterfront Garden, 5 April 2021 (Flickr album of 10 photos)

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
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Radiohead Cover #2
How To Disappear Completely for String Quintet is taken from Landscapes, Knives & Glue - Radiohead's Kid A. Wooden Elephant is Ian Andersson.


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