Tag: Australian native plants
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Flower Friday
The highlights of my working week with the flowers that I have enjoyed looking at this week.
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It’s mostly orange this week
I am rather partial to orange flowers, and a lot that have looked great this week so far have been orange or have similar colours on them. It is mainly marigolds and roses, but a random other flower or two. Now for the roses. The Queensland firewheel tree-proper Australian tree, but fabulous. Finally for my…
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It’s been a busy week
Spring is in the air again here in Sydney and I have been rather busy. This is a good thing as when I’m one of those who needs to be busy at work-why bother having a job when you can’t be bothered working? Being a busy week hasn’t stopped me finding interesting features of plants…
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Angophora costata-Sydney red gum
This fabulous tree is my absolute favourite tree going. From the orange-salmon pink bark that feels like concrete rather than wood to the fact that this tree looses its bark once a year, I just find it an awesome species, if a little weird to my English eyes on first coming across it. Angophora costata…
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My February bushcare session
On the fourth Saturday of every month, I take myself off to my little patch of bush (think a little patch of wooded slope with a creek at the bottom) with my fellow volunteers and we try to remove all the weeds that are spreading through our little patch, so that the native vegetation here…
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