Tag: flora

Green days

  The unseasonal  rains has made for a much greener than usual summer. Lawns lie lush and verdant rather than dry and brown. The foliage is dense and vibrant. The vines are  yet to harvest, the vintage delayed, as summer clings on for its last few days.  For the Daily Post photo challenge It IS easy

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Autumn glories

Here by the beach, although we have four seasons, they can be a bit indistinct. Not so in the Adelaide Hills, just a few km up the freeway. At this time of year everyone is flocking to the Mount Lofty (yes, a great name) Botantic Gardens, for the vibrant autumn colours. Here you could be

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Native v introduced

Spring is here and in Glenelg, as elsewhere in Adelaide, there’s the contrast between the native plants and those introduced by the colonials. Today’s contest: bottlebrush (Callistemon, a native myrtle) v roses, both equally as Aussie and British as it’s possible to be. Best of all, the jacaranda tree. We don’t have them by the

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