Drumsticks - Isopogon and Common Heath - Epacris Impressa. There are drums and trumpets leading the parade.
These two are old friends I am always happy to welcome. The symmetry of the drumsticks please me and the delicate beauty and resilience of the heath flowers delight me.
Oo - that heath is pretty - so different from the ones round here.
ReplyDeleteSee the red one here:
http://freefallingskyward.blogspot.com/2011/06/excursion-mt-arapiles.html
What is that mathematical conceit that they apply to the symmetry and reptition within nature. I suspect you will know it. That is what your drumstick puts me in mind of.
ReplyDeleteI suspect there are no wildflowers in Paddo, just garden escapees.
I should go for a wander through either Trumper Park or Cooper Park to photograph flowers I find and try to work out if any are 'native'.
ReplyDeleteLetty's red heath looks so very different. More like a bell. Is that what this looks like side-on?
ReplyDeleteThe top one is similar to one that Peter has posted today and is trying to idenytify.
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ReplyDeleteThese are new to me too. The bottom one reminds me of lupins.
ReplyDeleteLetty, there are quite a few varieties of heath, I have another coming up a little later in this series. I have shown a pink variety of this one taken last year at
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Julie, it is Euclid's algorithm that you are thinking of. What I am learning at Whistlers Rest is the biodiversity there is in the natural landscape. I now know what conservationists are bleating about when it comes to loss of biodiversity in our built landscapes. It's a challenge though, we generally don't buy a block of land to be a conservation zone.
Jim, yes it does look similar to Peter's pic. I think his a narrow leafed version.
Winam, perhaps a bit like lupins but these flowers are much smaller. I like lupins even though they are weed in the high country.