Lens-Artists Challenge #143: Colorful April. I couldn’t resist posting to Amy’s challenge of Colorful April because we’d visited Maple Glen Garden on 04 April 2021 and I’d taken plenty of colourful images. In New Zealand it’s now AUTUMN.
We’d arrived at the garden earlier in the day to heavy rain and had to drive some distance to escape into a cafe. On our return in the afternoon the weather was still threatening but we got away with it and spent some wonderful hours wandering around what is one of our favourite gardens!
Maple Glen Garden is at Glenham, Southland, New Zealand.
Colourful / Colorful April (Autumn)
Text and photos by Liz; Exploring Colour (2021)
Wonderful collection of colorful images, Liz. We are just beginning to see our spring flowers bloom. It’s interesting how the months are so opposite on the different halves of the globe.
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Thank you Steve! We are VERY opposite aren’t we? I find it interesting too 😀
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Just love this gallery of colors!!
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I love that you love the colours! thanks xx
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Wow Liz, amazing images. Surely you didn’t really capture them all in the same day?!?!? Loved the little goslings and your many varieties of blooms. Glorious!
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Thanks for the visit Tina! I say (as I embarrassedly look down and shuffle my feet) that I took over 300 photos in just a few hours .. thinking it might rain again at any moment so I just went for it!
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Well worth it Liz!!
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Glad you were able to get back to Maple Glen after the rain, Liz! Autumn has a lot to offer and it was well worth going back for all this variety.
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Wow. Beautiful selections!
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Thanks for coming to see the autumn colours of Maple Glen!
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Gorgeous collection!
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Glad you enjoyed this colour tour of Maple Glen garden!
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What a striking palette of magnificent colors, Liz! What a range you’ve included, and every photo a beauty.
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So glad you enjoyed these colours, many thanks for your lovely comment!
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What a fabulous gallery, Liz! Thank you for taking us long letting us enjoy these colorful flowers. These red leaves and the mushroom are lovely. All are beautifully captured. 🙂
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Thanks for your visit Amy! I’m glad you used the title ‘Colorful April’ enabling me to share my autumn colours from here in New Zealand!
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My pleasure, Luz. 😊
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Wow. I love those bursts of color, Liz. It may be autumn there, but you have an incredible amount of amazing colors. I love the shot of the black swans with the cygnets–so cute. It was cool that you even were able to include a colorful mushroom.
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The red/white toadstools look sweet and we have some in Tapanui too. I took a ‘blind’ low shot under a mature toadstool and got a fairly clear photo – lots of little dead flies/bugs under the hood! Which reminded me its called ‘fly agaric’ so I looked it up and found about its names: “Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita”. All the ones I found at Maple Glen were growing near birch trees. Glad you enjoyed the colour Mike!
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Wow, you’ve done a “Colorful April” album in spades! (I thought that was an apt expression for a garden-related post 😊 ) Fantastic shots!
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Thank you Robert! and I love your humour 😀
I did manage to dig out a lot of photos for this post hehe!
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Haha yes! 😃
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A beautiful set of photographs, Liz! You’re making me look forward to being able to garden-visit again. The fuchsia, asters and rudbeckia are all favourites that I have in my own garden, but I’d love to have the red maple and the abutilon too. (I used to have a small yellow one growing in the greenhouse in Scotland but something managed to eat a lot of its bark and it then didn’t cope with the following winter. I should try again here.)
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Thank you Ann! There was so much to see and photograph. I have quite a few abutilon photos from our visit – I have white, yellow, pink and one soggy red 🙂
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Lovely – I look forward to seeing those – and the soggy red has my sympathy, LOL!
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