Two Sticks Hill

Blackwood Acacia melanoxylon is in flower now

Last year's seeds and the flowers together

Red Stringybark buds and fruit Eucalyptus macrorhyncha 

Bear's Ears Cymbonotus spp

Hard to see, but the cleared area under the powerlines was a vast field of Early Nancys Wurmbea dioica

Site of the old Sherwood Homestead.  The homestead is long gone but the daffodils remain. In a sea of violets.

Closeups of some of the flowers. The daffodils are the variety Rip Van Winkle, first planted here at the homestead about 100 years ago.

 

View to Mt Dowling from the Sherwood grave site

Two Sticks Hill, its the one on the left

Rocky things on Two Sticks Hill.

Views from the Two Sticks Hill saddle into Brindabella National Park NSW

Reads Hut

Blackwood Acacia melanoxylon flower buds

Sour Bush Omphacomeria acerba just beginning to flower. The flowers are very tiny, not quite able to see them here. Does look superficially like Cherry Ballart (Exocarpos cupressiformis), which is in the same family.

Large Sour Bush at the front.

Silver Wattle Acacia dealbata flowering now

Common Hovea Hovea heterophyla

Australian Indigo Indigofera australis with flower buds

Bushfold Hut, rebuilt where Reads hut stood before the 2003 bushfires.

View from hut across Bushfold Flats

View west from Bushfold Flats to Deadman's Hill (left) and Booroomba Rocks (right of centre).

Namadgi rainbow

Blackwood

Curly seed pods of Blackwood Acacia melanoxylon showing the seeds hanging on their long colied red stalks. My favourite wattle.