Scented Sun Orchids Blooming
Two weeks ago, I spotted a whole colony of scented sun orchids in bud. The Thelymitra macrophylla are […]
Purple Enamel Orchid
The Purple Enamel Orchid (Elythranthera brunonis) only grows in the southwest of Western Australia. The petals are shiny […]
Forest of Scented Sun Orchids
In a couple of weeks the forest is going to be filled with a mass of scented sun […]
Cowslip Orchids
These are our most prolific orchids, occurring in big bright patches throughout the forest. The Cowslip Orchid (Caladenia […]
More Midge Orchids
After a month, the colony of midge orchids is still flowering profusely. I don’t know if the flowers […]
First Snail Orchids
I found a new colony of snail orchids in the burnt forest and they were already in flower. […]
Midge Orchids
A whole colony of Midge Orchids (Cyrtostylis huegelii) has started flowering in the forest. I found them 10 […]
First Greenhood Orchid
So far we have found three different Greenhood or Pterostylis orchids on the property. (According to Wikipedia there […]
Spider Orchid
The red nodules on the lip of the flower look like a tongue or maybe a red carpet […]
Donkey Orchid
This was the first time I had seen these orchids and they are amazing the gradations in the […]
Silky Blue Orchid
Classed as “uncommon” this is one of a number of blue flowers on the property. Flower expert Eddy […]
Mosquito Orchid
The kangaroos or something seem to like eating these, so I rarely see more than the leaves. Their […]
Easter Bunny Orchid
This is the first orchid of the year and it appears in a couple of places around the […]
Butterfly Orchid
We have a lot of these around the property, they are the most unusual looking of the orchids.
Reaching Spider Orchid
I have only found 1 specimen of this plant on the property and they are apparently quite rare. […]
Triffid like Snail Orchids
A rotting log in the west of the property has a massive colony of these snail orchids. They […]
Blue Lady Orchid
This is one of the last orchids to appear and is one of the “sun” orchids, only opening […]
Scented Sun Orchid
I think this is one of my favourite orchids. The centre looks like a penguin holding a pearl.
First Bottlebrush Flower
This is the first “bottlebrush” type flower to appear on the property. We have planted hundreds of different […]
Pink Fairy
The Pink Fairy (Caladenia latifolia)are not as abundant as our other common Caladenia or spider orchids – the […]
Bad Pink Flowers
I feel guilty admiring the beauty in these pink flowers as they are the flower of one of […]
Spring Springing
Everywhere you look on the property, buds are bursting into flower providing some wonderful splashes of colour. Most […]
First Fairies
I spotted my first flash of pink in the forest today and spotted the first Pink Fairy Orchids […]
Writing and Photography
I don’t want to be a writer, but I do want to tell the story of this beautiful […]
Bobtail Lizard
Shorty was my “donkey ears” today, teaching me to stop rushing and take time to stop and observe. […]
Overwhelmed
I am feeling a little overwhelmed identifying and recording all the different fungi on the property. I have found […]
Red Beaks Unfurling
We have a number of large colonies of red beak orchids (Pyrorchis nigricans) in the forest and the […]
Holly Leaved Hovea
There are purple splashes throughout the forest with the early flowering of this prickly perennial plant. According to […]
First Bunny
I found this lonely little Easter Bunny orchid, the first for 2013. These are the first orchids of […]
Iridescent
When I thought about the Diary, I was worried I would run out of things to see, photograph […]
I wandered lonely as a cloud
..that floats on high o’er vales and hills, when all at once I saw a crowd, a host […]
Alien Life Forms
Only a few of these pop up around the property and often collapse under the length and weight […]
Pink Fairies
After the yellow cowslip, the pink fairies (in the same Caladenia family) are the most common around the […]
Blue Lobelia
I love the delicate nature of the lobelia compared to the other blue flowers on the property. We […]
Rare Plants
Our property borders a rare ironstone plant community and there are a number of rare and interesting plants on the […]
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