November 2016 in the Southern Hemisphere

[fermi de Sousa]

Blackhill Reserve flowers:
1) Button everlasting - Coronidium scorpioides;
2 & 3) close up of flowers;
4) Common Rice Flower - Pimelea humilis;
5) Burchardia umbellata;
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

Blackhill Reserve:
1) Revegetation Track;
2 - 4) Chocolate lilies and Bacon & Eggs!
5) Bacon & Eggs was the common name for these sorts of yellow-red/brown peas! This is Dillwynia cinerascens,
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

Last lot from Blackhill Reserve:
1 & 2) Milkmaids - Burchardia umbellata;
3) Sticky Everlasting - Xerochrysum viscosum;
4 & 5) Matted Bush-pea- Pultanea pedunculata;
cheers
fermi

[Maggi Young]

This Blackhill Reserve seems a rather pleasant place to visit - thanks fermi for showing us the plants.

[Robert]

Fermi,

The photographs from the Blackhill Reserve are very fascinating. Thank you for sharing them.

[Anthony Darby]

Well, don't understand why there would be a red Potentilla flower on the All Blacks jersey for the match against Italy this weekend. With five petals it certainly can't be a poppy!

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This Blackhill Reserve seems a rather pleasant place to visit - thanks fermi for showing us the plants.

Hi Maggi
We had not been back for awhile - there was a huge fire there in January 2015 - I posted some pics here (reply #53)
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=12593.45
When we feel energetic we might climb a bit higher into the areas which got burned.

Hi Robert,
you probably would've done the whole area in the time we took to traverse a few hundred metres!
cheers
fermi

[johnw]

Salix hylematica still putting on quite an electric show.


johnw - sunny and +14c, a stellar day.

[David Nicholson]

Lovely colour John.

[Jupiter]

I have a cold and am home from work, so what do I do? Take two panadol and go bush walking. I'm not good at taking it easy... 

Scott Creek Conservation Park. I was too late for the orchids, saw thousands of seed capsules, but there was lots flowering.

[Jupiter]

Part 2 from Scott Creek CP walk.

[Jupiter]

Part 3 of Scott Creek CP walk.

[Jupiter]

One more from Scott Creek, Banksia marginata (fruit?). Known by kids all over Australia as 'big bad banksia men' thanks to May Gibbs.

[Robert]

Jamus,

Thank you for sharing such an impressive set of photographs from the Australian Bush. ...and under duress none-the-less!

What sort of terrain is Scott Creek? Flat savannah? Hill country? A small preserve or many square miles (km)?

It must be an impressive show that dries into "nothingness" by mid-summer?

 

[Jupiter]

Hi Robert, it's hilly country, quite steep but not very high altitude on neutral to acidic soils, very rocky and gravelly for the most part with some sandy areas. The website says 706ha which is a decent area by South Australian standards. There's anyways something flowering in the bush here and our indigenous flora is extremely drought tolerant, so even mid summer is still very pretty. The area gets about 800 - 900mm of rainfall, mostly in the winter months tapering off into spring and autumn. Only occasionally summer storms.