Denise spotted a new plant in one of our regular walks today. We have identified them as Stackhousia monogyny or ‘Creamy Candles’ after following the key at PlantNET.
We found a great little patch of Inland Mosquito Orchids (Acianthus Collinus) on one of our walks today. These tiny orchids flower in winter and grow in a
Technically this beautiful bird is known as a white throated treecreeper, but it wasn’t until I captured this photo of our local visitor that I realised that she
Living out here full time for this record-breaking dry, hot Summer, I came to realise how tough it can be. Summer always brings it’s own delights, there are
OK, technically it is not a heatwave as we only got to 34.8 degrees yesterday, rather than the regulation 35 degrees. And the ‘heatwave’ is not actually continuing,
Very often, especially on cold nights, we will have a family of kookaburras all nestle together on the same branch in one of our eucalypts. Anywhere between two
We have a garden bed dedicated to bulbs, most of the year it looks barren except for the weeping crabapple in the centre and the spectacular liquid amber
You can always tell when the Eastern Spinebills are around. You can hear their clapping wings as they fly way before you actually see them. They flit around
This beautiful little lonely superb wren was hanging around in our shrubs out the front on his own at the beginning of Spring. He had not yet developed
We found a patch of these carnivorous plants growing in early spring after a wetter than average winter. They are rather small and easily overlooked in the 20cm
