Category: Flora
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labour of love… orchids
Author Koh Lin ◦ Continuing on with my labour of love… we have presented a selection of images and information on flora throughout Australia, which is another real passion of ours. One of the popular flora groups are the beautiful… Continue reading
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labour of love… flora
Author Koh Lin ◦ Continuing on with my labour of love… we have presented a selection of images and information on flora throughout Australia, which is another real passion of ours. From natives flora, shrubs and trees, to plants that… Continue reading
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Eremaea beaufortioides and the smallest bee I’ve ever seen…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ A quick follow up on yesterdays post on the smallest bee I’ve ever seen. I was asked about the flower and something for scale… The flower is Eremaea beaufortioides, a native only found in a comparatively… Continue reading
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I am a snotty gobbler
Author Andrew Turner ◦ When I was young, being called a “snotty gobbler” was not a good thing. Now that I’m older, I really enjoy being a “snotty gobbler”. Pictured above is the fruit of the Snotty Gobble Mistletoe, aka… Continue reading
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Such beauty… such perfection
Author Marianne Broug ◦ I was so moved this morning, with tears forming… I was looking intently at a Dragonfly and didn’t see this beautiful Shingleback, Tiliqua rugosa only a few feet from where I stood. It’s yellow markings with… Continue reading
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Cheering on our Golden Wattle…
Author Marianne Broug ◦ Marianne Broug © mariannebrougphotography.com Check out more blogs and contribution by Marianne Broug Continue reading
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Lehmannianus and Lemannianus
Author Terry Dunham ◦ Hakea lehmanniana (Blue Hakea) and Banksia lemanniana (Yellow Lantern Banksia). Note the two different species spelling, that sometimes get confused when naming them >> H. Lehmanniana is named in honour of German botanist Johann Georg Christian… Continue reading
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Landscape of a Leaf
Author Marianne Broug ◦ Yesterday I saw this gum leaf backlit by the sun and contrasted against the dark trunk of a Eucalyptus obliqua (Messmate stringybark). I thought it was simply magic. Such wonderful shapes. So often people think leaves… Continue reading
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Photogenic posers…
Author Terry Dunham ◦ One of the many reasons I love finding the Leafless Orchids (Praecoxanthus aphyllus) is the photogenic nature of them… and finding interesting and amusing poses… Here we have a Double Leafless flower stem, and a couple… Continue reading
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Discovering the wonderful Eurobodalla National Park
Author Phil Warburton ◦ Urban development is usually not great for wildlife. However, surprisingly, there are some good-news stories that we can celebrate, and which give cause for optimism. During the last 100 years, there has been a marked increase… Continue reading
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Great Southern Banksias
Author Terry Dunham ◦ Flowering of the Banksias in the Great Southern Region of Western Australia… Following include Banksia coccinea, Banksia sphaerocarpa, Banksia baxteri, Banksia grandis, Banksia nutans, Banksia attenuata and Banksia media flowering now (January 2024) in the Great… Continue reading
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More treasures to be had…
Author Koh Lin ◦ Looking beyond the bower… Our Western Bowerbird has been around for many years now… from our very first blog Treasures of our Western Bowerbird (July 2020), we wrote about the bower being there in our garden… Continue reading