A day visit at the Blue Lotus Water Garden

It was nice and sunny before the extreme heatwave hit Melbourne. So, my sister in law suggested to give this water garden a visit knowing the giant amazon lily is blooming. It was a nice drive up there, passing through suburbs like Seville, Woori Yallock and Wandin, beautiful country view.

The garden has a nice set up, they have a cafe, an air-confitioned gift shop and places for picnic and barbeque. Since we all had our quick lunch, we went for the flowers right away. As usual, they will give you a map with the garden's layout so you can decide which part to go first and you won't lost your way in the garden (though it's not that big). They have sections (some with green house) such as the giant amazon lily, little yarra adventure trail (which is the outskirt of the garden next to the yarra river, it's cooler there), the crocodile plant pavilion, oga lotus garden, night lily house (you will be able to see the flowers during the day) and winch house.

This is how the start of the garden looks like:

We were with a friend, Emily and she thought the swan was real! No, it's not a real swan, it's a floating swan. Anyway, we were told that the giant amazon lily is blooming so heading over there to start the journey would be ideal. I was quite impressed with the garden, you can walk on bridges to cross the lake filled with beautiful lotus. There are few colours of lotus and lilies. Of course, I took some pictures and here they are:

We continue the journey with the newly planted crocodile plant (so it's still in a baby size), there's a crocodile in the pond and yea it's another fake animal! But these plants do look similar to the skin of crocodile and they are one of the favourite hiding place for the crocodile in the wild because it's camouflage.

We then hit the winch house, the house of hybrid water lilies. Here are some of my favourites:

Spotted some nice lilies near me! However, some on the far end.. can't take a good shot (or I need more photograph practice). We covered most of the green houses by now, it was certainly not comfortable to bear when the green house makes the environment so much hotter and stuffy. So we went to the little yarra adventure trail that you can see the oga lotus garden in the same time. 

That's me on the bridge above the lake full of lotus! 

Lastly, we visited the night lily house, there are some lilies blooming and it was about 3pm in the arvo. 

It's pretty and nice to visit (if the weather is not too hot) but make sure you check on their website for the latest information about the garden before you visit. click here for blue lotus water garden website

There's an entrance fee of 15 dollars but I think it's worth it!