Yellow plants have been catching my eye. Tall Black Wattles, Acacia mearnsii, are the last of our wattles to flower, with highly fragrant, pale-yellow, crowded globular flowerheads. They are one of a minority of wattles which retain their original feathery leaves.
Black Wattle
Hop Goodenia, G.ovata, bushes are everywhere, their distinctive flowers with five unevenly placed petals.
Hop Goodenia
Opposite the community garden at Aireys Inlet is a small garden with a riot of yellow flowers. At the lowest level are Showy Podolepis, P decipiens, with large brightly coloured flowers and Common Everlasting, Chrysocephalum apiculatum, with rounded terminal clusters of smaller flowers and lovely soft greyish leaves. Dancing above them on erect stems with crowded, thread-like leaves, are the tiny flowers of Clustered Everlasting, Chrysocephalum semipapposum, in dense flat-topped clusters.
Podolepsis and Clustered Everlasting
Popping up along the cliff tops at Aireys Inlet are vivid patches of blue: unexpected and glorious large clusters of Love Creeper, Comosperma volubile.
Love Creeper
Ellinor Campbell