Profusion is a lovely word, isn’t it? And certainly one you can apply to these water lilies. Right now I’m feeling like I’ve had a profusion of summer days. I know it can’t last but I love it. Recently I visited Burnby Hall Gardens, in the village of Pocklington in Yorkshire. Home to the National Collection of over 100 varieties of water lily, it’s all about profusion. Be prepared to be dazzled!
In case you hadn’t guessed, this is my entry for Paula’s Thursday’s Special. ‘Pick a word’, says Paula. I think she’d probably agree that it’s a ‘brilliant’ display. And did you spot the heart?
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I always love water lilies, so thanks for sharing this profusion with us, Jo. What a lovely place. 🙂
Sorry, Cathy- I’ve just noticed all your comments! Dad was here for a couple of hours then I had 10 more minutes in the garden before the sun moves too far round. Just researching and writing tomorrow’s post. 🙂 We visited some beautiful gardens this summer.
Simply gorgeous, Jo..
I’ve been to some wonderful gardens this Summer, Ark, and this one was definitely special. 🙂
A profusion indeed Jo – shades of Monet’s Water Garden what beautiful lilies! 🙂
I know! 🙂 🙂 I didn’t really think about Giverny at the time but you’re right.
I always associate water lilies with there!
I especially love the yellow one.
Thank you! 🙂 🙂
Seerosen in allen Farben, was für ein schönes Bild !…
Wunderbar, Ernst! Schonen Sonntag 🙂 🙂
Just love water lilies – lovely!
Especially in profusion 🙂 🙂 A happy weekend to you, Corey!
And to you as well!:)
Great set, Jo. All of them.
Thanks, darlin. That’s kind of you 🙂
A profusion of photos of a profusion of water lillies! They are beautiful (as are your photos).
Thanks, darlin! Not quite Giverny, but very beautiful. 🙂
And so are your photos. 🙂
I was prepared to be dazzled, but these pictures just blew me away Jo! Awesome 😀
I have to admit, I was blown away myself when I saw the sheer volume of water lilies, Dianne. They were magical. Thanks, darlin’. Hope life is treating you ok. 🙂 🙂
Profusions – you made the word lovely (and I loved the close-ups!) I also have a walk for your Monday :
https://onesmallwalk.com/2016/08/26/walking-rotterdam-the-netherlands/
Happy Day to you – Susan
Thanks, Susan! I’m just back from a day out with our son in Leeds 🙂 Sunny too! Will join you in Rotterdam soon.
I am dazzled by your profusion of amazing water lily shots, Jo. The colors, the shapes, the immensity and quantity of them, just lovely. I can almost smell them… I saw a few during our long country drive yesterday, but did not tell my husband to stop so I could take a photo. It is much easier to enjoy yours! 🙂
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Hi Liesbet 🙂 Fabulous, aren’t they? Have a wonderful weekend!
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing those beautiful pictures. 🙂
Have a great weekend,
Pit
Hi Pit! Heading into a sunny Bank Holiday weekend here. Can’t be bad! Thanks a lot and hope you have a good weekend too. 🙂 🙂
I did spot a heart, Jo! These are incredibly gorgeous in their many colors and pad shapes. I have half a dozen in my back pond and feel like that’s a treasure. These overwhelm! I honestly wouldn’t have guessed there were more than one hundred varieties that would all grow thrive in one climate! Delightful!
Good lass! I knew I could count on you, Debbie 🙂 🙂 You should have heard all the oohs and aahs 🙂
OMG, I wish I were there, Jo. The heart… you mean leaves? Or I have missed? OO… I don’t think I can sleep tonight… 😉
Thanks for sharing.
The two shots side by side of leaves have a little water heart nestled on a leaf. 🙂 Fabulous, aren’t they? Glad you like them, Helen.
Such gorgeous flowers, I love your submission.
Hi Charlie! Lovely to see you and sorry I’ve not been to yours lately. Hope all’s well? 🙂 Yes, I really love these water lilies.
I do like water lilies! They seem quite magical.
Yes, as Ken suggested- the patter of fairy footsteps? 🙂
What a nice way to put it!
My words, his idea 🙂 🙂 Long weekend, Karen? Enjoy!
Abundance of water lilies feeds the soul. So beautifully captured Jo 💛
They were a stunning sight, Val. Don’t think I’ve seen so many since Giverny. Thanks a lot 🙂
Duly dazzled, Jo! 😀😀 seriously I love water lilies and these are enchanting. Pocklington (great name!) is definitely a place to visit!
A bit more off the radar than Giverny, but less crowded 🙂 🙂 Fabulous, on both counts 🙂
Beautiful photos
They are such lovely subjects 🙂 Thanks!
Couldn’t you manage one more shot? [runs for cover….]
Ha! We both know you couldn’t run fast enough 🙂 🙂 I could post the other 50 or so and link to you if you’d like? There was a Stumpery which was quite interesting too but you can read about that in the blurb.
How beautiful!
Do you have alligators over there? The last time I saw this many water lilies in one place, there were even more alligators peeking out from under them.
That looks like a wonderful place that you visited. My favorite of the water lilies pictured are the pink ones (images 9380, 9382, 9384). 🙂
Have a blessed day!
Thank you so much for your visit, Suzanne. I’m delighted to report that we don’t have gators here. I wouldn’t have gotten half so close if we did. 🙂 🙂
You’re welcome and I don’t blame you! I’m glad that you don’t have to worry about those fascinating, but terrifying, creatures. There is a park relatively close to us (about 30 miles) that has thousands of alligators. There was one beside my foot while on the path once and I didn’t even know it. Had I moved even one inch over to the right, my foot would have been in its mouth. Scary thought. It was an exciting adventure. Those days are long behind me now, though. I want to take the risky shots, but I don’t want to be someone’s snack, either. 🙂
Lol, you have perfect taste, I took some photos of lily pads a couple of weeks ago and could have done a very similar post (not written as well though!) Yet another place I’d like to go to in Yorkshire, I love watery gardens and the yellow lily is like one I had in my old pond, it was fragrant, were any of these? I see you nearly fell in, Daisy the dog did, she got too enthusiastic about a coot, so then of course I had to let Dido in as well to cool off 🙂 I hope you’re having a good week darling, the weather has changed here, rainy and grey with a little sun and very humid.
You’re just going to have to visit Yorkshire one day, Gilly. Did you see ‘your’ heart? 🙂 🙂 I don’t think any were fragrant but I was focusing more on balance than smell! There were some huge fish lurking in there and looking hungry. A couple of youngsters in wellies nearly got eaten! Thanks, darlin’. Thursday evening hugs!
Um, I think there’s telepathy going on, I buy digestive biscuits about one in five years, but I bought a packet yesterday on my way to work and with the help of a friend scoffed half the packet!
That’s why I don’t buy them very often either! Dark choc ones are best but the plain go better with cheese. 🙂
No way! my favourite too, Aldi ones are the best!
Fabulous! I love your photos and the colors and compisitions and collection as a whole. What a wonderful way to start my day. Profusion f beauty indeed. Was it Monet or Manet who did thise stunning paintings of waterlilies? Your first few photographs made me think of those incredible paintings. I guess artists have been inspired by water lilies for a long time. So lovely. Thanks!
Peta
Oops excuse my typos. I am using an ipad and missed those before sending.
No worries! I’m the same if I use my phone 🙂 Thanks for your visit.
The Monet garden in Giverny is fabulous, Peta. We were there for our Silver Wedding 2 years ago. I’ve always wanted to see those water lilies and they didn’t disappoint. These were lovely too 🙂
wow! gorgeous shots, Jo! profusion of water lilies, indeed!
You’re working hard already, LolaWi 🙂 🙂 But they really are lovely.
Yep, I’m dazzled alright!
Good-o! 🙂 🙂
Beautiful!
When there are floods north of Buenos Aires, the rivers burst their banks and flow down to the River Plate and the sea. One of the consequences is that the currents bring enormous clusters of water lily pads and any animal that happened to be on them at the time. So it’s not unheard of to find snakes, small gators or red foxes in the areas closer to the river. It doesn’t happen very often, but it did last summer.
I bet that does not happen in Yorkshire 🙂
There were some fierce looking fish under the lilies, fighting for food, Ana. Gators would have sorted them out! 🙂 🙂
Jo did you hear me squealing form across the pond, and I don’t mean the water lily pond. Oh my these are gorgeous. Another chilly day here and I’m afraid your water lilies would be shriveling up at the thought of living here. So sad for us.
I almost put a link in the post so you’d see it, Sue. I know you like them. 🙂 Delivered as promised 🙂 🙂
Yay for me! I seem to always be behind in my reading these days so glad not to have missed these beauties. Thanks for thinking of me. Xo
Such beauty laying so quietly on the water.
And such a noise from all the oo-ers and aah-ers, Lynn 🙂 🙂
How marvelous!
Aren’t they just! 🙂 🙂
And a profusion of colours too – gorgeous!
I was astounded at how many beauties, Carol. I love them 🙂
So many gorgeous varieties – I love it! The garden looks like such a tranquil spot.
It was huge and there was more to it than ‘just’ the water lilies. Maybe another day 🙂 🙂
What a feast! And a heart! Wonderful.
Fabulous, aren’t they? Glad you like them 🙂
Water Lilies have a special place in my heart!
That’s nice to know 🙂 🙂
Wow! I think these are some of my favorite photographs, Jo. Beautiful!
Quite incredible, the volume of them, Jill! I never saw so many 🙂 🙂
I never knew there were so many varieties. Aren’t they all divine.
Absolutely! Packed and good to go? Have a safe and fabulous trip and I hope to see you somewhere in Yorkshire. 🙂 🙂
One day of work to go, and counting! Almost packed. So excited.
They are so beautiful- what a great choice!
They were going to be part of a Monday walk but they fit this challenge so well. What’s a girl to do? 🙂
I love water lilies and you have captured a magnificent collection of them. Yes, I like the word ‘profusion’ too. It reminds me of another word “plethora”. I’ve always thought that they mean the same thing but when I just looked up both words in the dictionary, I was surprised to read:
profusion – an extremely large amount of something [very fitting], plethora – a very large amount of something, especially a larger amount than you need, want, or can deal with. [Definitely not the case with the waterlilies!!]
Yes, plethora is more in line with bountiful and too much of a good thing, isn’t it? Nice word but definitely not the case for the water lilies. 🙂 🙂
WOW! This is almost a great poetry of photographs… Thank you, Love, nia
It really was the most fantastic display, Nia. You would have been in love! 🙂
Almost looks as if you could see the fairies dancing on them, Jo 😉
I knew you’d spot them, Ken! Things all good with you? 🙂
Fine thank you, Jo. A couple of wintry days after our early spring. All the blossoms, azaleas, freesias and irises are in bloom, so no use being a global warming sceptic 😂
Simply enjoy 🙂
A glorious profusion, Jo! And I am sat here amazed at the sheer number of gardens you visit….. Happy Thursday, Jo 😊
It’s been a good summer for gardens, Sue, and we really do have some beauties. One more tomorrow and that’s probably it for a while 🙂
Look forward to the images, Jo!
They are all so beautiful.
Alison
I agree. 🙂 Thanks, Alison.
Brilliant profusion. Agreed :D. What photo says “profusion” best according to you? The 2nd in the row?
Yes, please 🙂
😀
But there will be no voting this time considering the variety of words. 😀
That’s never a problem for me 🙂
🙂
What a gorgeous display of nature.
It’s a wonder I didn’t fall in, I spent so long ogling them 🙂 🙂 How are you, hon?
Oh, you make me laugh. 🙂 I’m doing okay Jo, all things considering.
Stunning . . . . . .and great choice of word.
Tailormade, don’t you think? 🙂 🙂
Definitely!
😀 thank you