13 Sept 2015

Silver Wattle

Silver Wattle Acacia dealbata is flowering now





2 Sept 2015

Lakeview Track

Understorey shrubs of  Pomaderris intermedia in bud.  The flowers will be golden.


Box-leaf Wattle Acacia buxifolia





Common or Creeping Hovea Hovea heterophyla


30 Aug 2015

Early Nancy

Early Nancy's Wurmbea dioica emerging from the ground.


Confirmation that it is now Spring.


16 Aug 2015

Snow!

Snow falling on Black Mountain 12/08/15


8 Aug 2015

Cooleman Ridge

Cootamundra Wattle Acacia baileyana in flower now. This Wattle is not originally from the Canberra area and is considered a weed.



Lower leaf stalks are swept back towards the branch



Broadleaf Cumbungi Typha orientalis giving away their seeds now.






View to the west from Cooleman Ridge







19 Jul 2015

Drooping She-oak

Lots of flowering Drooping She-oak Allocasuarina verticillata on Mt Stromlo.  The female tree has small red flowers.


The female tree with new and older cones together.  Seeds are the main food of Glossy Black Cockatoos Calyptorhynchus lathami.



The male tree has golden flowers on small branches



The entire male tree has a rusty appearance when in flower. Looking west from Mt Stromlo to Brindabellas- Mt Coree on the right. 






14 Jun 2015

Coombabah Lakelands

Native Violet Viola hederacea


Blue Murdannia Murdannia graminea


Coast Banksia Banksia integrifolia


Moreton Bay Ash Corymbia tessellaris lower bark



Moreton Bay Ash trunk