ruby said:
buffy said:
So here are today’s flaars. I did find one of the orchids that I was particularly looking for. So I know they have started. I’ll have to find another cool day and take my bushwandering friend out there in the next couple of weeks so she can see them. This one had barely opened, I had to pinch it to get a look at the inside to ID it properly. It is Dipodium pardalinum (Spotted Hyacinth Orchid), endangered in Victoria. I saw it in this spot last year, so it’s obviously happy.
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Brunonia australis (Blue Pincushion), Pimelea humilis (Common rice flower) and Stylidium graminifolium (Grass trigger plant). There were lots of trigger plants out. Such a pretty, dainty thing.
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Viola sieberiana (Tiny violet). Another endangered one. A bit of a camera tart…I always seem to get quite reasonable photos of it. We have a lot of it at the covenant.
Wahlenbergia gymnoclada (Naked bluebell). Impossible to see the plant properly in situ. Fortunately on our own property I can pull one out and get some photos that show the things you need to see for ID.
Lovely captures Buffy.
I think my grandmother painted that Dipododium (I hope that made you think of my ghostly nanna with her paintbrush loaded up with purple paint, making sure your flaar had it’s right number of spots!)
I’ve been watching them in a couple of places for a couple of years now. They grow with the D. roseum, sometimes sitting in each other’s laps. D. roseum is common. I was very pleased to find the pardalinum was at the covenant. Here are some of my previous observations of them.