The spring flowering has pretty-well finished, but there are still treasures to see, the most spectacular the mallee flowers and gum nuts, both of luxuriant size and formation. But there were also white correa, grevilleas, clematis tendrils, pods and ferns, and the occasional unknown and feral.
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You should have been a botanist 🙂 Gorgeous captures, Meg. Is it very hot over there?
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I don’t have the necessary memory, scientific mind or discipline to be a botanist! We haven’t had much heat: one day in the mid 30s, which I wilted in. I’m not a great fan of hot days.
It’s so good to have you back in the blogging world.
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I’m not a fan of hot days either (I’m a winter baby) Thank you, Meg.
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So many of your native flora remind me of exploding fireworks! Lovely to see such diversity and I’m with Gilly, what IS that extraordinary bean/pea pod extravaganza?
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“Exploding fireworks” is a good description. For me the most stunning were the mallee blossoms, with their idiosyncratic flower caps and connectors. Photos aren’t brilliant, unfortunately. The wind was blowing fiercely and ants kept falling on my head.
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You did well. I’d have done a runner with ants falling on my head!
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Is that a tiny flower or a huge ant? What fascinating things you’ve found, those green pods look like broad beans on steroids. It’s lovely to see the dog rose way over there, it will be a few months before I see one here. I think my favourites are the seed heads, they are so delicate, how does something so small and soft produce a plant, it’s a miracle. The gum nuts are cute too, they look like they should be in the sea. Glorious volcano flora x:-)x
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It’s a tiny flower. Your description of the wattle-pods made me laugh: wattles produce the most amazingly diverse and beautiful pods, and in huge profusion. These gum nuts were big – finger-to-thumb-in-a-circle big. They were our table decoration and some marauding creature chomped on them in the night.
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