Plants

Goodbye winter and the dainty small blue pea flowers on the small shrubs of Common Hovea, Hovea heterophylla. Common Hovea Hello spring and plants of all…

August is ‘Wattle Month’ with so many favourites brightening the bush. Golden Wattle, Acacia pycnantha, and Myrtle Wattle, A. myrtifolia, are familiar species but there…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…