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Wild Beauty

            If you happened to look at my photostream on Remembrance Day, you would have seen my tribute to those who have died, or fought and lived, in war, which featured a vibrant red poppy against a black and white background.

Well, this is the same poppy, but I wanted to show you how glorious it looked along with its equally bright companions in this wonderful wild poppy field in the middle of inner Melbourne.  Yes!  This poppy field was one of a bank of four planted in the St Kilda Botanical Gardens, which I had the pleasure of visiting a few weeks ago.

The site of the St Kilda Botanical Gardens were established in the 1800's.  The municipal council petitioned the Department of Lands and Survey to make this segment of land bordered by Dickens Street, Tennyson Street and Blessington Street a Botanic Garden.  The gardens were formally established in 1859 when a boundary fence was erected.  By 1907 significant donations of money and plant material had led to the establishment of a rosary, extensive flower beds and a nursery.  Exotic forest trees were planted during the 1870s and Australian species were included in 1932.  In the 1950s the Alister Clarke Rose Garden was established and a Sub-Tropical Rain-forest conservatory added in the early 1990's.

Taken in: Australia / Victoria / St Kilda (show map)

Taken on: October 18, 2023

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Camera: Canon DIGITAL IXUS 80 IS, f/8.0, 1/160 sec, 6.2mm, ISO 80 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon DIGITAL IXUS 80 IS
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	0.006 sec (1/160)
Focal Length:	6.2mm
ISO:	80
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
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