Monday, 28 July 2008

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Around the lakes at the National Botanical Gardens Wales, there was lots of Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria), Monkey flower (Mimulus guttatus), Water mint (Mentha aquatica), Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) and White water lily (Nymphaea alba) as well as Sharp-flowered rush (Juncus acutifloris). Above the flowers there were Banded demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens), Blue-tailed (Ischnura elegans) and Large red damselflies (Pyrrhosoma nymphula). The water yielded froglets and newtlets.

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