White flowers with blurred background
Butterflies drinking water in wet sand next to a small jungle river. My lucky day - but I had more than one such encounter! During dry season the jungle leaves have little or no water to drink. Hence butterflies do what humans do when thirsty, they go - or fly - to the next "butterfly pub". Way up in the mountains - amidst jungle - was a small crystal clear jungle river. This place with wet sand about 1 meter away from the water. A few dozen butterflies always flying around this small spot and about a dozen at a time sitting down for a short while to take a few zips of water out of the wet sand.
During rainy season it may be far more difficult to find such crowds of butterflies on a single spot. During rainy season raindrops can easily be found all across the jungle vegetation.
See my earlier photos if you love to learn a little about butterfly life cycle or see some butterfly wallpaper from tropical islands or enjoy my Butterfly eCard collection.
In album Kingdom of Cambodia: Photos Cambodia scenery, eCards Cambodia nature
Exotic flower
Best in show was awarded to Matthew Soper of Hampshire Carnivorous Plants and he was delighted.
"This is a very special year, not only because of this award at Tatton Park but it means we have won ten consecutive golds at Chelsea, ten at Hampton Court, ten at BBC Gardeners' World Live and now ten at Tatton Park and best in show. I couldn't be more pleased, it's fantastic!" Well done to Matthew. I couldn't mention the floral marquee again without letting you know how Medwyn Williams got on. Well, his gold medal record is as unblemished as his prize winning vegetables; another gold for Medwyn and an unbroken record. And to top it off the sun is shining! I'm really not used to this at a flower show, I might have to go and have a lie down. In the sun. With an ice cream perhaps... Info from:
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