Spring is here and I've finally gotten around to taking some new photos. We've had a wet winter by recent standards and it should be a great flowering season. A good time for a trip to the kwongan heaths to check out the colour. Next time I will post pictures of various styles of groovy native gardens that I've spied around Fremantle, but for now here are some pictures of whats happening on the verge today....Everlastings (Helipterum roseum). These are planted on the corner that occasionally gets run over by rogue trucks (GRR!)
What it looked like before (in the winter)...
And after!
Another before about 1 day after planting
And after nearly four years. Just a little bit different. Our kids can now climb that spindly tree being supported in the upper photograph.
The tufts are Ficinia nodosa, the silver is Kalbarri carpet (super-easy to grow from a cutting). The KC is intermixed with Calothamnus quadrificus. In the background are Hakea laurina (see the earlier post with flowers) Beaufortuia squarrosa (soon to be covered in scarlet bottlebrush flowers), Acacia lasiocarpa (coastal moses ), Grevillea priessi etc
Acacia lasiocarpa with Kennedia coccinea (coral vine) entwined within it. The Kennedia grows in the dunes at D'entracasteaux National Park near Walpole, so it must be pretty robust.
The sprawling Banksia blechnifolia. The flowers are big but not bright, yet the New Holland honeyeaters know all about them.
And finally, the kangaroo paws are beginnningto flower. Here is an orange cultivar version.
