Tags
Glossodia major: waxlip orchid
Monotoca elliptica: tree broom-heath
Eucalypt leaves
Fungus and grass
Pultenaea daphnoides: large-leafed bush pea
Correa alba: white correa
Sandflower
Commersonia fraseri: brush kurrajong
? Escapee geranium?
Hibbertia scandens: snake vine; climbing guinea vine
No ID
Everlasting paper daisy
Wattle pods
lichen
Hakea salicifolia (?)
Glossodia major: waxlip orchid
Daviesia ulicifolia: gorse bitter pea
Melaleuca ericifolia (?): swamp paperbark
Melaleuca ericifolia (?): swamp paperbark
Casuarina littoralis : black she-oak
Casuarina littoralis (?) : black she-oak
Casuarina littoralis (?) : black she-oak
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The waxlip is lovely halo or not, I’m jealous but so glad I get to see it thanks to you ❤
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That’s three wax lips now, all in different places. They aren’t as common as some of the other one’s we find around here, although they’re certainly not rare.
My oldest friend has just been on an orchid tour in Western Australia. I’m holidaying with her mid October and I’m going to try to persuade her to do a guest post, or at least appropriate some of her photos to share.
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All beautifully named too! 🙂 The orchids are a lovely shade and I don’t mind the odd halo.
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The colour of the orchids: now there’s a vexed question! J and I argue, and so do my two cameras. Blue? Or purple? And does it matter??? The halo may have arrived because I pay homage on my knees!
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Purple, and no, it doesn’t 🙂
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You have been busy! I love your native flowers, but as Tish remarks, they are not always easy to find. Why does your waxlip orchid have a halo around it? Is that caused by the camera? A difficult colour to photograph.
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No idea about the halo. I was disappointed with the orchid photos. Waxlips were perfectly placed and I took 20 shots with two cameras, and yet they’re not dead sharp. Flowers are not big but not hard to find either. I hope you noticed the gum tips – specially for you. Monochrome indeed!!!!
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Your corner of Australia is very prolific with wild flowers. It looks like a good season.
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National Park and forest, and enough bulldozer and fire to make them flourish! I know my part of the world now, and can almost predict where I’ll find what. At least four species of orchid along the waxlip track at different times – over 15 years, mind you.
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I don’t think I have ever had the pleasure of staying in one place long enough to really say I know it that well.
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Oh, but what other pleasures you’ve had! You reveal more and more adventures as you trawl your archives.
I used to raise an eyebrow when J said “Let’s go and visit the xxx in the gully with the xxx”. Now I’m doing it myself. I’m even becoming familiar enough with Warsaw to say “Let’s go to that little walled garden and see what’s flowering.”
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Lucky you to have family in such interesting places. Are you already making plans for your next visit?
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Trying to. Visas. Plane tickets. Insurance. All seem to pose problems. I’m just a bystander at the moment – an odd feeling for me.
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When do you go?
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Not till March / April. Hence the difficulty with plane tickets – can’t book a return more than a year in advance and we wanted to come back in November AND get early-bird booking now.
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Quite tricky…
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We’re not talking in-your-face ‘hosts of golden daffodils’ here. I suspect you have to do a bit of sleuthing and keeping your eyes peeled to come on all these lovely plants. Am especially taken with bush pea.Oh yes and the wattle pods. I have a thing for pods. Came back from Kenya with quite a few, though pruned them down over the years.
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My excuse for walking slowly: useful aerobic walking would carry you past treasures. I spotted most of these on a 4 km walk to a lake where I was looking for still waters: the bush pea was beside the road into the Point, the orchids along a bush road. Unfortunately it wasn’t my most glorious photographic day.
We wouldn’t be allowed to bring pods back into Australia, but I saw a great display in a rainforest discovery centre near Mossman in April. Pods would make a great portrait-study.
“Not a host of golden daffodils” would’ve been a good post title! I might use it for the next batch, if I may (and if I remember.)
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Feel free to use my recycled Wordsworth, Meg 🙂 The art of productive ambling – I think we both go in for this pursuit. So much more satisfying than steaming along.
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