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Beautiful sight of Xanthhoreas.
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Posted by popi NSW Aust (My Page) on Fri, Jul 11, 08 at 4:12
| I meandered through some bushland, near me today. It is national park and coastal.
It was fantastic...the best part was turning a bend and there in front on me was a forest of grass trees, with their flower spikes just about to flower. It was glorious. There must have been hundreds of them, interspersed with banksias.
Glorious Aussie bushland, nothing like it.
I am going to go back in a couple of weeks as, if it is possible to see anything better than a forest of grass trees, the flannel flowers will be flowering. So pretty.
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RE: Beautiful sight of Xanthhoreas.
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| Agreed. After a bushfire (and flowring) they are especially pretty and a wonderful sight. The Brisbane Ranges South West of Melbourne for the southernites is worth of visit anytime for the xanthorreas but also orchids and epacris. |
RE: Beautiful sight of Xanthhoreas.
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| "I meandered through some bushland, near me today...". I love your prose! I, too, have a Xanthhorea (or two, or three) that has put up a spike and its emerging white flowers are absolutely covered in bees. I live (and garden) just west of Tweed Heads, NSW. Mine - X. Australis (bluish foliage)- has become multi-stemmed, but only one spike so far. Nevertheless, it still looks good. 'Glorius Aussie bushland'! Yes, I agree. I also have flowering Banksia coccinea, one flower out, 5 or 6 more emerging. Simply cant wait! |
RE: Beautiful sight of Xanthhoreas.
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Yes popi, what a lovely word-picture. I can just imagine it. If the grasstrees were about to flower than they may be a step further on when you go back, and full of bees, like funnelweb's, or attracting some lovely honeyeating birds. Walk quietly and take your camera!
My morning's heartlift came from realising that one of my little orchids, attached to its piece of bark, had fallen down behind something and was quietly flowering away down there. It's an Ironbark Orchid, Dendrobium aemulum, and is always the first one to do its thing, reminding me that spring is going to come again this year, despite all the present evidence against it!
Thanks.
Trish |
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