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
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
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
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
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
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
Keep a lookout on your walks and you may be pleasantly surprised. Cranberry Heath, Styphelia humifusa (formerly Astroloma humifusum), has striking bright red narrow tubular…
staff1 May 2023
White Correa, Correa alba var. alba, has been flowering for quite some time along the clifftops. The large dense bushes have white waxy flowers with…
staff3 April 2023
My favourite February flower has to be Ixodia, I. archillaeoides subs.alata. The clusters of these small, vivid white papery flowers growing on low shrubs, stand…
staff27 March 2023