Your unusual Aussie flora fascinates me, I do wish you would/could name some of them for me, but I do recognise grevillea, gumnuts, possibly callistemon? And some very alien looking creatures!! Lovely wandering with you my friend. I am hoping to visit WA next spring to see the flowers there.
Hakea. Mallee. Both worth a check. There were some labels but they weren’t always easy to connect with a specific plant. I’ll be very envious of your WA. My friend Rosemary has been twice, once on a tour no one else was booked on, with the focus on orchids.
A lovely collection Meg. It recalls happy discoveries in Western Australia. Yes indeed flamboyance is a good descriptor.I was most interested in the flowers and found these in sharper focus than some of those in your earlier post.
Not to worry. We can still enjoy the photos as collages. I am sure that you have still created works of art, and they would far surpass anything I could produce.
This is such a beautiful post. I am entranced by the shapes and textures. Continuing our ‘discussion’ from yesterday, I am viewing this directly from the Reader and it looks so much better. Normally I click on ‘visit’ to come directly to your site but I hit the button without thinking this morning. The vagaries of life! Hope the traveling went well. I am still full of angst this morning, waiting for news of my friend.
Your friend? I missed something. I hope the news has come, and that it’s good. On a far less important note, I’m glad my images are behaving better, as is my car. Recharged to perfection.
Harder for the family. They were on a cruise to celebrate Pete and Vron’s wedding anniversary and one by one they have flown home to her bedside. It’s gone very quiet as we wait. Thanks, sweetheart. Glad the car behaved. Enjoy your friendship time. 🙂
These are lovely. What beautiful gardens they must be. Do you happen to know the name of the flowers in the first photo? I took a similar photo of the same flowers growing our botanical gardens down here. I would love to grow them in my own garden.
It was their expansiveness that I loved – 164 ha. There were a number of trails: hakeas, wattles, ferns, casuarinas, prostantheras, and the one I mainly followed, mallees. I actually made this post wordless, partly to disguise the fact that I was irresponsible and didn’t note nomenclature! So I can’t name the flowers – hakea? grevillea? isopogon?
Fair enough. I can never remember names when I’m out walking. I’ll look for it in nurseries. Maybe it’s a kind of mint bush but I’m not sure of the latin name for them.
The gumnuts / fruits are mainly from Western Australia whose flora is always recognisable by its flamboyance, and where aridity has led to extreme diversity. No one I’ve spoken to has heard of this place, and usually I’m the last to visit. It was started by a couple of enthusiast brothers, one of whom has an orchid named for him.
Eunice said:
Great photos – the flowers are lovely and the views are fab 🙂
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morselsandscraps said:
Welcome to my world, Eunice. It was the expansiveness that made it such a pleasure – 164 hectares, overlooking a lake.
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BeckyB said:
Beautiful 🙂
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Lucid Gypsy said:
Lots of swirling shapes and dancing skirts, beautiful!
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morselsandscraps said:
I think you’d have enjoyed the walk, and I’ve have been honoured by your company.
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Heyjude said:
Your unusual Aussie flora fascinates me, I do wish you would/could name some of them for me, but I do recognise grevillea, gumnuts, possibly callistemon? And some very alien looking creatures!! Lovely wandering with you my friend. I am hoping to visit WA next spring to see the flowers there.
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morselsandscraps said:
Hakea. Mallee. Both worth a check. There were some labels but they weren’t always easy to connect with a specific plant. I’ll be very envious of your WA. My friend Rosemary has been twice, once on a tour no one else was booked on, with the focus on orchids.
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Heyjude said:
I never thought about a tour. That could be a good thing to do, especially if I am on my own.
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morselsandscraps said:
There are plenty. Rosemary’s was quite expensive. J and I talked about renting a Harley and biking the spring flowers – probably won’t happen now!
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Heyjude said:
On a Harley? Oh, my!! That would be an adventure.
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Rosemary Barnard said:
A lovely collection Meg. It recalls happy discoveries in Western Australia. Yes indeed flamboyance is a good descriptor.I was most interested in the flowers and found these in sharper focus than some of those in your earlier post.
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morselsandscraps said:
When I got home J said “How about WA now?”
(Who knows what’s going on? I was using both cameras. And the images I posted looked sharp to me at the point of posting.)
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Rosemary Barnard said:
Not to worry. We can still enjoy the photos as collages. I am sure that you have still created works of art, and they would far surpass anything I could produce.
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morselsandscraps said:
I doubt it, if you decided this was your mode, but you’re very kind
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restlessjo said:
This is such a beautiful post. I am entranced by the shapes and textures. Continuing our ‘discussion’ from yesterday, I am viewing this directly from the Reader and it looks so much better. Normally I click on ‘visit’ to come directly to your site but I hit the button without thinking this morning. The vagaries of life! Hope the traveling went well. I am still full of angst this morning, waiting for news of my friend.
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morselsandscraps said:
Your friend? I missed something. I hope the news has come, and that it’s good. On a far less important note, I’m glad my images are behaving better, as is my car. Recharged to perfection.
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restlessjo said:
Sorry darlin. Difficult 24 hours. Waiting for more news but she made it through the night.
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morselsandscraps said:
Waiting is so hard. Sympathetic hugs, my dear friend.
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restlessjo said:
Harder for the family. They were on a cruise to celebrate Pete and Vron’s wedding anniversary and one by one they have flown home to her bedside. It’s gone very quiet as we wait. Thanks, sweetheart. Glad the car behaved. Enjoy your friendship time. 🙂
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Suzanne said:
These are lovely. What beautiful gardens they must be. Do you happen to know the name of the flowers in the first photo? I took a similar photo of the same flowers growing our botanical gardens down here. I would love to grow them in my own garden.
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morselsandscraps said:
It was their expansiveness that I loved – 164 ha. There were a number of trails: hakeas, wattles, ferns, casuarinas, prostantheras, and the one I mainly followed, mallees. I actually made this post wordless, partly to disguise the fact that I was irresponsible and didn’t note nomenclature! So I can’t name the flowers – hakea? grevillea? isopogon?
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Suzanne said:
Fair enough. I can never remember names when I’m out walking. I’ll look for it in nurseries. Maybe it’s a kind of mint bush but I’m not sure of the latin name for them.
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morselsandscraps said:
Mintbush are prostanthera I think.
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Suzanne said:
Thanks. That rings a bell.
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Sue said:
Marvellous place! I am always amazed at the sheer variety, colour and exuberance of the flora in such an arid land!
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morselsandscraps said:
The gumnuts / fruits are mainly from Western Australia whose flora is always recognisable by its flamboyance, and where aridity has led to extreme diversity. No one I’ve spoken to has heard of this place, and usually I’m the last to visit. It was started by a couple of enthusiast brothers, one of whom has an orchid named for him.
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Sue said:
How marvellous that you are the first amongst your friends to visit this place!
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morselsandscraps said:
Dunno why it should matter!
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Sue said:
Perhaps it doesn’t?
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morselsandscraps said:
It absolutely doesn’t!!!
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Sue said:
😀😀😀
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funnymentalist61 said:
Lovely photos am I guessing you were not all that far from us for these? How long ago? Beautiful photography, mate.
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morselsandscraps said:
Not far from you? 300+ km. Is that “not far”? I was there last Saturday. I had them to myself: just saw one worker at the beginning.
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Tish Farrell said:
Your photo galleries, Meg, are giving me a big itch to see/ be in your landscapes.
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Sue said:
Me too!!
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morselsandscraps said:
Come!!!
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