Flora notes
Moggs Creek has been hiding a secret. Confined to a small area of heathland on the ridge between Moggs Creek and Fairhaven is a localised…
Rod28 June 2024
Flora notes
What a wonderful autumnal show we have been having along the coastal cliffs with the massed, dangling pale-orange tassels, or catkins, of the male Drooping…
Flora notes
In coastal areas spreading bushes of White Correa, Correa alba var. alba, are displaying their white flowers with four spreading petals. White Correa In our…
Rod3 May 2024
Flora Notes
The middle of autumn is normally a quiet time for flowers, and this year's ongoing dryness has particularly discouraged new growth. However our one indigenous…
Rod3 April 2024
Flora Notes
In our coastal heathlands it has been wonderful to see so many bushes of Ixodia, Ixodia archillaeoides subsp. alata, with delightful clusters of small vivid…
Rod1 March 2024
Flora Notes
Time seems to be ‘out of joint’ for our plants as well as us. Spring flowering plants such as the low-growing guinea-flowers, the Silky Hibbertia…
Rod2 February 2024
Flora Notes
This month the white flowers of several tall bushes are a feature, two being quite widespread. Prickly Teatree, Leptospermum continentale, has masses of five-petalled flowers, and…
Rod1 December 2023
November Flora Notes
A current feature of our heathland is the massed flowers on low-growing shrubs of Silky Teatree, Leptospermum myrsinoides. The flowers with five soft petals are usually…
Rod6 November 2023
Flora notes
Some of our white daisy bushes are really starring at the moment. Profusely flowering bushes of Dusty Daisy-bush, Olearia phlogopappa var. phlogopappa, and Snowy Daisy-bush, Olearia lirata, look very…
Rod16 October 2023
Flora Notes
Our heathlands are alive with the colours and scents of spring. Along the clifftops the fragrance can be almost overpowering. Many bushes are covered in…
staff1 September 2023