Flowers by the Roadside 2010

[fermi de Sousa]

I think we had a thread with this sort of title awhile ago but thought I'd start a new one after taking some pics a bit over a week ago.
We stopped along the roadside at a coupe of places on the way back from Bendigo. I posted pics from here last year of these "wild" Sparaxis outside a garden fence. Alas they mowed the area before the seeds were ripe!  Maybe this year they'll be lazy!
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fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

Next we got pics of more "feral South Africans" - gazanias by the thousand!

[Gerdk]

Next we got pics of more "feral South Africans" - gazanias by the thousand!

Great - much better than our dandelions by the million!

Gerd

[Arykana]

  I have to pay a fortunes fot those gazanias here   

[fermi de Sousa]

Erika, we can send you seeds!
Gerd, more colourful but almost as wide-spread!

Later we found some of our native flowers as well!
Acacias,




Hibbertia




Pink Lady Fingers Orchid (Caladenia sp)


and in purple


"Early Nancy", Wurumbea sp,


"Wax-lip Orchid" Glossodia sp.


cheers
fermi

[mark smyth]

My first love was the Gazania. I have never had seed on mine

[fermi de Sousa]

My first love was the Gazania. I have never had seed on mine

If you like some, Mark, I can collect a few...hundred/thousand!

We also found a "Donkey orchid" - Diuris sp.


Disappointingly, some people don't see the beauty of the bush along the roadside - it's just a place to dump their rubbish


This colony of a few dozen Wax-lips were growing up through this trash.


cheers
fermi

[Arykana]

Erika, we can send you seeds!

can you? I think you not, because the Australian law 

[Maggi Young]

Erika, we can send you seeds!

can you? I think you not, because the Australian law 

Take heart, Erika.... the Australian restrictions are for seeds going into Australia, not out f the country! 

[Arykana]

good news! 

[cohan]

I think we had a thread with this sort of title awhile ago but thought I'd start a new one after taking some pics a bit over a week ago.
We stopped along the roadside at a coupe of places on the way back from Bendigo. I posted pics from here last year of these "wild" Sparaxis outside a garden fence. Alas they mowed the area before the seeds were ripe!  Maybe this year they'll be lazy!
cheers
fermi

you have a better class of weed than i do--mine are nearly all escaped forage crops or imported agricultural pests (there are escaped garden plants, but not much around here).
nice to see a few natives have managed to survive!!

[Lesley Cox]

They're beautiful Fermi, whether native or not. When I had a Dactylorhiza seedling appear in the grass outside my gate a couple of years ago a fellow-Forumist was worried in case it spread and became a noxious weed. Either someone took it or it died a natural death as it hasn't appeared since.

On the Mt Macedon road we saw dead (large) kangaroos on the side of the road. Someone had spray-painted them with the words "slow down." Being so big, it was like seeing a large dog, a labrador say, having been hit by a car. Perhaps commonplace for country Australians but I found it very sad.

[daveyp1970]

i wouldn't mind some of the Sparaxis seed fermi if you managed to get any love the dark ones they are stunning,what a weed?

[angie]

Really lovely, wish our roadsides were like that, instead we have prickly bushes ( brambles ) and nettles.
I planted my Gazanias in my chuckie paths, they have done well. 

Angie

[fermi de Sousa]

Hi Erika,
send me your address in a PM and I'll try to remember to collect some gazania seed for you and Mark.
Davey,
likewise for the sparaxis seed, though more likely from the home garden!

This morning I stopped on the way to work and got these pics of vinca and iris; the iris are known locally as "Settlers' White" (probably Iris albicans) and "Settlers' Blue" (? Florentine iris?) and date back to the Gold Rush period of the 1850's.
cheers
fermi