This week, with the help of Tony Davies, I created a Flickr account and joined a Flickr group. The group is called Australian flowers - plants - trees and it has some gorgeous photos of Australian native plants.My picture is from the cover of Australian Plants. It is a photo of some flannel flowers whose botanical name is Actinotus helianthi. Although they are not bright, showy flowers I think the arrangement of the grey and green-tipped velvety sepals is exquisite. I haven't been successful in growing this plant in the garden but have seen it flowering in a fairly dry location in NSW where masses of plants covered a stony roadside embankment.
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Wow, I love native plants, so I was glad to find these photos. I did a search for green bottlebrush, found a photo of a hummingbird and a bottlebrush. We don't have hummingbirds in Aus, and I thought bottlebrush were only in Aus, so great eg of our native floral exports I suppose (?)
Jane, aka maisy
Maisy if you love native plants have you come across http://www.blognow.com.au/gumnuts/ It's a great site for all sorts of information about Australian plants
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