Tag: Australian Native Plant
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A visit to Brisbane-I didn’t have to leave the ship to enjoy myself!
The unexpected wildlife and scenery around the cruise terminal in Brisbane.
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Auburn Botanic Gardens
Last week, I decided to get out the house on a sunny day to visit Auburn Botanic Gardens. They are located in the western Sydney suburb of Auburn. I went about eight years ago and decided that it was time for a return visit. Some general information These gardens are run by the local council.…
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Golden Guinea Flower-Hibbertia scandens
Golden Guinea flower is a climber native to the east coast of Australia. Here is some information on this plant with the bright yellow flowers.
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Persoonia, Hakea, Banksia and river views
Lane Cove National Park is one of my favourite places to go for a walk when I get the chance. On Saturday, I had time to go for a walk and I went on a slightly new route. I have to say that I really should along those paths more often, as it is a…
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Kangaroo apple-Solanum aviculare
Information on kangaroo apple, a nice little shrub native to the east coast of Australia.
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I don’t know which flowers I prefer!
Which flowers do I prefer? Grevillea flowers are usually my favourite but Corymbia ficifolia are possibly number one.
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Flower Friday
Flowers found during my working week-plenty of colour and different flower shapes this week.
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Australian indigo-Indigofera australis
A little information about Australian indigo, Indigofera australis.
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Australian National Botanic Garden, Canberra
The Australian Botanic Gardens are located on the lower slopes of Black Mountain which is on the edge of Australia’s capital city Canberra. Within its 40 hectares, there are around 77, 000 plants, representing more than 4, 600 species of plants-roughly one fifth of all of Australia’s native plants. I visited in September, so early…
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Grey spider flower-Grevillea buxifolia
A little about the grey spider flower or Grevillea buxifolia.
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River rose-Bauera rubioides
On my weekend walk through Lane Cove National Park, I came across the river rose. I have walked past this shrub so many times over the years, but only noticed it this weekend because of the lovely pink flowers. The river rose prefers wet soils, especially when along creek banks-where I saw this particular plant,…
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Flower Friday
The wonderful flowers I’ve seen this week-all sorts of shapes, sizes and colours. Enjoy!
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Turpentine flowers-I’ve finally been able to find some!
The flowers of turpentine. Or Syncarpia limiters
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Gardening in the first weekend of spring
My seed sowing session in the garden this weekend, including some vegetables, flowers and Australian natives.
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Flower Friday
The plays that I’ve enjoyed looking at across my working week, from flowering pears to grevilleas.
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My seed purchase
The seeds that I’ve chosen for my garden-some onions and four Australian native plants.
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Doryanthes palmeri-common spear lily
All about the common spear lily (Doryanthes palmeri), a native Australian plant.
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Spring is in the air…just!
Spring is appearing in the air… just about. I’m looking forward to sowing some veg seeds.
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Nature doing its thing-why it is a good thing
Using plants to cover bare soil is better than weeds and spraying chemicals.
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Wollongong Botanic Garden
Wollongong is a city in New South Wales, Australia about one and a half hours drive south of Sydney. Last week, I went down to the botanic gardens for the day as I have wanted to visit for a while. History Before the arrival of Europeans, the area that is now the botanic gardens was…
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White dogwood-Ozothamnus diosmifolius
On my recent walk I came across the white dogwood plant for the first time, due to the showy nature of the flowers. The shrub can is usually around two metres in height, but can reach five metres. It’s a member of the Asteraceae family which is the daisy family. The binomial name, Ozothamnus diosmifolius,…
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Long-term plans for my garden
Over the past few weeks, I have been thinking about my patio garden and what I want to do with it over the next year or so. I have been thinking a lot, because over the past year, the weather has been really odd, with the autumn weather only just starting to cool down now.…
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Not bad but…a little imagination would help!
Use a wider range of plants in the garden-it’s more interesting!
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Silky Hakea-Hakea sericea
Silky hakea, or Hakea sericea, is one of those uniquely Australian plants that is under-rated as a plant in my humble opinion. A member of the Proteaceae family, this is a shrub that reaches up to three metres tall. I have only seen it growing in bushland settings, but from doing some reading, it is…
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Leaves
The leaves of plants are essential for photosynthesis, which allows the plants to produce sugars for energy. This energy is used for growth extracting water and nutrients from the soil and to maintain the health of the plant. Leaves also vary is size, shape and colour, so I’m going to show some of my favourite…
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I love looking at the planting around my local swimming pool. It’s full of native plants and trees. My husband dropped me off at the pool and I had a few minutes to have a look at some plants before he came to pick me up again. We have the white flowers of this broad-leaved…
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Glorious sunrise this week
Starting work at 6.30am can be tough, but a sunrise like this one on Wednesday makes it worthwhile. The days are getting shorter now that it’s autumn, and cooler temperatures will hopefully come along with the great sunrises soon too! Society garlic is a nightmare of a plant. It can look very nice and delicate…
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Proteaceae family plants
The Proteaceae family is another particular favourite family of mine as it has some fabulous plants amount its members that I think are fabulous, like Grevillea and Banksia species here in Australia. This family has a really diverse range of plants within it, mainly located within the southern hemisphere, including Australia South Africa (greatest centres…
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Native cherry-Exocarpus cupressiformis
This is an Australian native tree that I have only noticed once on the bush walk that I have done countless time over the past twelve years or so. I only noticed it on my last walk because I initially thought that it was a a non-native tree in the national park. The native cherry…
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Plants and a ladybird
Here are my plants of the week, along with a yellow ladybird. This is a rosemary cultivar, with rather pale but pretty flowers. Rosemary is a plant that symbolises remembrance, is a tasty herb, smells great and loved by bees. What’s not to like? Just because this little guy is out and about, I thought…
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Let nature do its thing
Anytime I am gardening, whether I’m at home or work, I am always paying attention to what’s going on around me. What I see every day is the ability of nature to get on with doing what it does best-regenerating itself through plants sending out their seed and those seeds germinating and growing nut plants.…
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I just have to share
I probably sound like a broken record a lot of the time, but native Australian flowers are just so much fun to have around. Showy, colourful and a little odd in their own way, but that I why I love them. This week, I have seen a nice colourful bunch of these flowers that I…
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Odds and ends from the day
The Queensland bottle tree is an odd looking tree, but that’s why I like it. While this isn’t a full info post on this species, I just wanted to show you some pictures of the trunks of the tree. Here are some pretty flowers to end this brief post. While I’m very glad today has…
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It’s all about the natives today
Today, I have been doing some work in the native garden of my new workplace. How this new work environment works is rather weird, and far from perfect, but it is better than the old one. The benefits of this new place are that I get left alone to get on with the work and…
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An afternoon walk in Lane Cove National Park
Lane Cove National Park is my closest national park here in Sydney. At one point, I would walk down there weekly with my husband but we fell out of the habit. We went down there for walk today and it was in generally lovely-and I’ll explain what I mean later on. The weather today has…
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Blue Gum High Forest
Blue Gum High Forest is an open moist forest, located in the northern suburbs of Sydney, along ridge lines between Crows Nest and Hornsby. The name comes from one of the dominant tree species within the forest, the Sydney Blue Gum (Eucalyptus saligna). The forest only grows on shale soils, with a maximum of only…
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Moreton bay fig
Fig trees are some of the most fabulous trees that I see around me on a fairly frequent basis. The size of them and their natural form when they are allowed to grow as nature intended is so interesting. My absolute favourite fig tree is the Moreton Bay fig, or Ficus macrophylla. The common name…
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Things I’ve appreciated over the past couple of days
While I am out and about, I love looking at the plants around me. I am a plant geek through and through! All of the plants that I’m sharing today are from my pottering around doing my thing as I go. These trees are all in a nurture reserve across the road from where I…
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Another day, more heat and struggle!
After a fairly relaxed weekend, Monday has come with temperatures that really are too hot for me to deal with! Instead of moaning all the time, because we all have too much of that nonsense if we allow it, I’m really looking around me for what is looking good after a bit of rain over…
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Out and about this week
Having a bit of spare time, I’ve had the chance to look at my photos from the week. I don’t have many this week, partly because I had a training day on Wednesday and there was annoying rain showers around for the rest of the week. Yesterday (Friday) was the wettest day of the week,…
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I’ve been busy for plant spotting
Today has been one where I’m busy plant spotting, mainly to try and stop myself getting too bored and fed up! Yes work is something that needs to be done, but some days do seem a little like they drag, hence the plant spotting. Interesting features, new plants or great colours always factor into what…
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Natural goings on this week
After a hot and mostly sunny week with a bit of rain last night, I’m going to share what’s put a smile on my face this week. I say natural as I came across this chap, in the picture below, this morning. I apologise if the photo is blurry as I didn’t want to get…
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Blue flax lily
It’s been a while since I did any sort of plant profile so, I thought I’d talk about the blue flax lily, or Dianella cerulea. This is a lovely native of the Sydney area and beyond. Both the common name and second part of the binomial (Latin) name are due to the colour of these…
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Sydney’s botanic gardens in spring
After feeling like I had cabin fever last weekend due to the need to get my next assessment done, I thought I’d get myself off to Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens. I don’t actually think I’ve ever been in spring, so I had a really nice time. The weather was cloudy and cool, but that’s the…
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Hints of spring
This week the weather has been a bit wet and cloudy on both days I have been there-Monday was a public holiday with great weather so doesn’t count. Tomorrow is supposed to be warm again and sunny-very like a normal spring, the weather can’t help but be all over the place! Every spring, eucalyptus trees…
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Looking through my photos
I have been having a look through the monstrous number of photos on my phone today (I have over 8000 at the moment apparently) and I have to say there are a fair few decent photos in these, along with the dodgy photos of feet, legs and blurry things I can’t make out! This grevillea…
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Barangaroo Reserve
Saturday was a beautiful day here in Sydney, although rather windy. I decided it was the perfect day for a trip into the city to visit Barangaroo Reserve, located on the edge of the harbour. See the screen shot from Google Maps below to see the location relative to the Sydney Opera House. Barangaroo Reserve…
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Flowers that have cheered me up today
Today has been very busy running around doing some hedging, mulching and tidying up after myself. Along the way, and in the past week, I saw some lovely flowers that I thought I would share. Here are wattle flowers, mainly because they are so showy in a yellow sort of way, while also looking completely…
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My weekly flower favourites
Welcome to my Friday of flowers. As usual, I like to end my week with something that makes me smile and gives me some pleasure and flowers give me that. While my week has been quite good, it is something nice to do. The Turkish Pine, or Prunus brutia, is a wonderful tree, as are…
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Flower Friday
The wonderful thing about living in Sydney is that there are flowers all year round. Today is the day I share this weeks with you. Purple seems to be a thing this week, but purple is a fabulous colour I think! These rather delightful flowers are from Myrtle-leaf milkwort, or Polygala myrtifolia. I haven’t come…
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Melaleuca styphelioides, the prickly-leaved paperbark
This particular paperbark is my favourite as the bark on it (along with all other paperbarks) is rather interesting, and the leaves are rather delicate looking with rather sharp tips on them, hence the common name of the tree! This genus of trees and shrubs belongs to the Myrtaceae family that also includes eucalypts. The…
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The leaves of some native Australian plants
I normally like to share the flowers that I come across during a given week with people, but today I thought I’d do something a little different. This week, I’m sharing some of the various leaves of native Australian plants that I have seen over the last few months. The leaves below come from a…
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My week in plants
Flowers are still the main theme of the day, but other things are included because I find them interesting. Below is the flower of Melaleuca quinquenervia. This is another native tree that I’m rather partial too as I love the flowers. This is Grevillea rosemarinifolia, named so because the leaves look a bit like those…
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Another week done
Thankfully, another week is done and I can spend time doing things other than smelling of manure! That has its place, but only when I’m working. It has been wet and tough going, but makes the weekend all the more enjoyable! I saw this hibiscus flower bud part way through opening up. These flowers are…
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My working week
This week has been an irritation to say the least, one that will likely be repeated, as much as I’d rather it wasn’t! As I would actually rather finish my Friday on a positive note with the plants I’ve enjoyed looking, I’ll focus on showing you those rather than moan about the people that have…
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My trip out
Today, I went out into Sydney so I could go to the state library to do some studying. I do this every now and then as, when I’m at home, I get distracted by a cute cat, and housework like laundry, hoovering and the dishes so the studying doesn’t always get done as it could…
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My morning at local parks
Today is a public holiday here in Sydney. As a result, there are some soccer games on at some of the local parks. My son has a job where he sets up the goal nets for some of these games and I’m acting as the taxi service until his driving test has been passed! This…
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Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens
On my recent travels, I found myself at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens in Hobart, the capital city of Tasmania, Australia. Whenever I travel, I always try and find a public garden of some sort to visit. This post is all about my visit to these fine gardens, which I enjoyed immensely. The weather was…
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Flowers and wildlife on a Friday
The end of my working week has been a bit of a wet one this week, but it has been a relief that it’s been cooler rather than hot and humid! I am rather happy that it’s the weekend as it has been yet another busy week-I don’t have quiet weeks, but I’d rather this…
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What’s been happening this week?
In my garden this week, there are a couple of things happening that I’m happy about. The first is that we have had the first of our tomatoes that have ripened. I’m happy to say that they are very tasty-far tastier than those found in the supermarket! In my book, that is the best result…
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Glochidion ferdinandi
Glochidion ferdinandi, which is also known as the ‘cheese tree’ is an Australian tree that you don’t really see in cultivation, although I do like this tree. The cheese tree has the potential to reach 15 metres tall, but frequently 4-8 metres. In its native rainforest margins, it is a pioneer plant (a plant that…
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Banksia spinulosa-Hairpin banksia
The hairpin banksia is a shrub native to the states of Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland in Australia, being as far north as Cairns in Queensland. It’s habitat varies from coastal forests to the forests of the great dividing range. The presence of this shrub does indicate that conditions within its environment are moist.…
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