In this video I had March last year visited a large water garden called "Blue Lotus Water Garden" here in Victoria, Australia. It's situated in the Yarra Valley and during winter has a reputation of being very cold and once you drive or travel from Lilydale to Warburton, you'll at first have no imagination that there's a piece of tropical paradise hidden in the valley. I think these gardens are only about a couple of decades old, the only few places where there are lily pads over a meter wide in diameter and this gardens are more about lotus flowers and many bridges to cross over the ponds.
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