High Contrast floral imagery in the National Botanic Gardens. I love these flowers. They are so elegant, and the colours are so vibrant at this time of year.

A duck in the National Botanic Gardens cooling her tail in the lily pond.

Beautiful colours at this time of year in The National Botanic Gardens.

I’m not sure of the name of this particular type of cactus, but it has this spider web of soft fluff at the very top with super sharp spikes poking through. Another shot from the Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin, Dublin.

Water has such a nice way of sticking to the petals of plants and lovely how it coats this white chrysanth adding to it’s natural beauty. Thanks Photowalk.ie for a great day out in the Botanic Gardens. For me, the rain definitely helped.

Despite the rain in the Botanic Gardens in Dublin today, the flowers were still in full bloom. Nice to still see bees collecting pollen in September and also making an appearance for the Photowalk.ie day out.

A cherry blossom tree from the National Botanic Gardens taken on Easter Monday.

Another shot from my trip to the National Botanic Gardens last weekend, and today these beautiful orange and pink trumpet flowers suspended under a canopy of banana leaves inside the glasshouse.

Another shot from the National Botanic Gardens. This was taken on Easter Monday in the large Banana Greenhouse.