What local plants are flowering in your garden or bushland at Christmas

Wildflowers at Christmas

21/12/2018

Christmas is a time to slow down and celebrate with the people that really matter in our lives. Its a time to share stories about the year past which may include our interests and our passions.

Sweet Bursaria, Bursaria spinosa

Australian wildflowers have given me a lot of pleasure over the past three decades so I would like to share with you the indigenous plants of the Geelong area that are flowering in my garden this Christmas.

Take a few minutes to sit back, relax and enjoy the kaleidoscope of colour that is,
Wildflowers at Christmas (click on the image to enlarge)

Sweet Bursaria, Bursaria spinosa

Blushing Bindweed, Convolvulus erubescens

Blue Devil, Eryngium ovinum

Rock Lily, Bulbine glauca

Burgan, Kunzea ericoides

Clover Glycine, Glycine latrobeana

Common Everlasting, Chrysocephalum apiculatum

Feather heads, Ptilotus macrocephalus

Guinea flower, Hibbertia scandens

Hoary Sunray, Leucochrysum albicans var. tricolor

Kangaroo Apple, Solanum aviculare

Lemon Beauty-heads, Calocephalus citreus

Native Linseed, Linum marginale

Native Pelargonium, Pelargonium rodneyanum

Native Tobacco, Nicotiana suaveolens

New Holland Daisy, Vittadinia gracilis

Snowy Mintbush, Prostanthera nivea

Sticky Everlasting, Xerochrysum viscosum

Swamp Billy Buttons, Craspedia paludicola

Grass Triger Plant, Stylidium graminifolium

Tufted Bluebell, Whalenburgia cummunis

If you have pictures of your local wildflowers that are presently adding to the colour of your landscape, send them through and I'll post them here. Including name and provenance of the wildflowers would be a great help.

In February 2019 I plan to review the topic of revegetation
- design, site preparation and plant species selection.

How do we maximise the benefits to wildlife from biodiversity plantings while returning a useful income to the land owner. Biodiversity and profit may be strange bedfellows but the synergy of the two has so many advantages.

6 Comments

Polly Musgrove

23/12/2018 08:29:54 am

Lovely photos Steve!!! My Sweet Bursaria is looking wonderful too; such delicate little flowers which is always a suprise at this time of year! Looking forward to the next blog as always! Have a lovely festive season😊

Steve

23/12/2018 02:57:45 pm

Hi Polly
It was the Sweet Bursaria flowering at Christmases past that inspired me to see what else was adding to the gardens spectacle.
It think the spring rains have given many of the wildflowers a burst of energy for an extended flowering season.
I know your indigenous garden will be looking equally as spectacular this season.
How fortunate we are!!

Allan @ Florist Supplies link

31/1/2019 04:22:52 pm

This is another good article aside from the one about wildflower in Abruzzo. Those pictures are really amazing. This website amazes me always with their content. Keep up the good work.

Steve

1/2/2019 10:42:32 am

Thanks for your encouraging comments Allen. Glad to hear your also enthusiastic about Australian wildflowers.

Christine Russell link

26/1/2021 07:02:39 am

Hi Stephen.

Just felt the need to let you know how much I appreciate your knowledge and wisdom regarding our local plants.
I have a small local indigenous Plant Nursery in Mt Duneed. Growing plants and connecting people with their local species is very important to me.
Trying to get the public to understand that plants grow in communities, the importance of each plant.
Still learning...... but most passionate.
500 m from the old Stewarts Reserve , now renamed to Dooliebeal , meaning Red Gum.
My Nursery is on a farm that I rent and is owned by developers. The owners are hoping I will keep my Nursery here, also they have asked me put forward suggestions for street names, Of course I will use the names of significant plants , birds and animals, that live in Mt Duneed.
Sorry for the rambling.
Is there any way I can have a link to your blogs for my website, or mention you in one of my blogs?
You have done the hard work, I try but always run short of time.
Do you have tube stock that I can buy and grow on for recreating the land around Geelong?

Thanks again Steve
Keep safe and kind regards Chrissie

Steve

27/1/2021 01:56:58 pm

Hi Chrissie,
Thanks so much for your generous comments. It seems we share a passion for our native flora. I'm so pleased to hear that you will be able to contribute to naming new streets after local plants, animals and birds. That's a powerful way to raise the public's awareness.

I no longer have a nursery but I do volunteer at the Bellarine Landcare Nursery at Drysdale. I know the manager (Fiona) would be delighted to help you out with tubestock to grow on.

I'm happy for you to put a link to my website on your website. I'll put you on my mail-out list for blogs so you can link to articles that you feel would interest your followers.

Also a convenient place to start is my 'easy blog finder'. Just open the home page and hover over the blog drop down box, then click on 'easy blog finder' or copy and paste this link into your search engine - https://www.recreatingthecountry.com.au/easy-blog-finder.html
You should find material of interest there

Its great to hear about your work and you passion for plants. Keep it up as there has never been a more important time for people like yourself to be waving the banner for indigenous flora

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