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Wildflowers at Christmas

21/12/2018

6 Comments

 
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.
PictureSweet 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😊

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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!!

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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.

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Steve
1/2/2019 10:42:32 am

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

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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

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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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      • Diversity >
        • Making a list of plants for revegetation
      • Structure >
        • Ecology Snapshot - wildlife and their habitat
      • Species survival
      • Location - connections
      • Blueprint for Recreating the Counrty
    • Biodiversity and profit >
      • Designing for profit
    • Managing sustainable biorich landscapes
  • be Informed
    • Indigenous flora of the Geelong district >
      • Indigenous plants - what & why
      • Acacias, wattles of the Geelong Region
      • Acacias - the cafes of the bush
      • Allocasuarinas/drooping sheoaks, Black Sheoak & Callitris glaucophylla/cypress-pine
      • Bursaria spinosa, Sweet Bursaria
      • Eucalypts, The Sentinals
      • Exocarpos cupressiformis, Cherry Ballart
      • Moonah, Melaleuca lanceolata
      • Small riparian myrtles
      • Wedge-leaf/Giant Hop-bush, Dodonaea viscosa
      • Wild Plants of Inverleigh
      • Tree Violet - as tenacious as a terrier
    • Nurseryman's diary >
      • Regent Honeyeater - a good news story
      • Give me a home among the gum trees
      • Symbiotic fungi
      • The joys of seed collecting
      • Landcare, who cares?
      • The last Silver Banksia
      • Neds Corner
      • River Red Gums and the Tuscan monks
  • be Entertained
    • Stories for children >
      • Amie and the intoxicated kangaroos
      • The Little Green Caterpillar
      • B'emus'ed - a Christmas tale of bursairas and emus
    • Stories about the natural world >
      • Brushtail
      • Cormorant
      • Eastern Bettongs. 'Truffle junkies' or 'ecosystem engineers'
      • Richards Sweet Rewards
      • Coxy's Curse
      • How the River Red Gum came to be - A dreamtime story
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