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Leonardslee Gardens

I can’t believe it has been so long since my last blog entry here. Therefore I thought I had better try and catch up a little.

I have managed to get out and about to various places to enjoy the spring weather when it has been nice enough. Perhaps one of the most poignant is a potential last visit ever to the amazing Leonardslee Gardens here in Sussex which have now been bought privately and will be closed to the public from the end of June.

The rock garden area was a brilliant show of azaleas and rhododenrons this past May when I took the family along for a last look around.

Leonardslee azaleas

The Rock Garden was a sea of colour

The gardens are also well known locally for their wallabies that live in a couple of large open enclosures alongside the gardens. There were quite a few joeys half in and out of their mothers pouches and yes that is a white wallaby below - not a giant white rat! They have quite a few in their colony.

One of the white wallabies at Leonardslee Gardens

One of the main reasons for visiting also was that Canon had lent me one of their brilliant EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM lenses and I wanted to try it out. I was hoping for a lot more bright sunlight than we ended up with as I was sans tripod so all the trial shots were handheld. Still I was very pleased with the results both outdoors and also indoors in their vintage car and model displays. More to come later on this lens but here’s a few more images taken with it for now.

Vintage car gauges

The Dunce - Leonardslee model collection

And a final parting flower image - one of the few camellias that were out in the gardens.

Closeup of a camellia taken with the Canon 100mm macro lens

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