Flowering in Moonta in July

I've just taken a short walk around my garden to see what's in flower in mid-winter. It WAS a short walk cos it's cold and miserable outside. There are many plants coping with the wind and rain and flowering beautifully. 

Some plants have been flowering for a few months, eg Acacia iteaphylla (Flinders ranges wattle), Pandora jasminoides, Dodonea viscosa (purple hop bush), Chrysocephalum apiculatum (golden everlasting) and plenty of eremophilas and grevilleas. It's been lovely watching the various correas. The bells hang so gracefully and the honey eaters keep us entertained with their acrobatics while they take the nectar from the plants.

Some new flowers have emerged to brighten the garden. Please correct me if I have the names wrong - I'm still learning.  I think they are called:

Oleria picridifolia

Hardenbergia violacea alba (happy wanderer)

Kennedia nigricans (black coral pea)

Eremophila brevifolia

I'll add more plants and photos asap. The cold and rough weather only lasts a day or two here.
I hope I'll get to a couple of conservation reserves, including Agery and Pine Point, and community projects to check them out as well.

What's flowering in your garden?

Floral Design - our July meeting

Kathlyn intrigued us with her presentation on Floral Design at our July meeting. The Kadina Show is coming up in August and we are trying to encourage people to exhibit in the Aus plants section of the floral arrangement competition.  So Kathlyn presented ways we could make items for the different kinds of entries.  We now have a very high benchmark for our entries.

This is one clever lady!
 

 

May Trail

In May a group of us went to Adelaide for the weekend to check some very captivating projects:

• The new water conservation, wetland scheme and the Auss section in the Botanic Gardens
• The wetland project at Salisbury -stacks of fairy wrens chirruping around
• The mangrove board walk at St Kilda.

I'd add photos but I just can't get them to upload.  grrr


Our next group outings are in September when many flowers will be in bloom. We plan to wander along the Ninnes Bullock Trail -who knows what we'll find -  and the following weekend we'll be heading north to the Wirrabara forest to hopefully see lots of recovery from the last two years of bush fires.

Think we might be making a difference..............................some a year ago and May 2014.

Thanks to the District Council Copper Coast for the grant to buy this shed.
It even has tools in it now, so there's no longer the need to bring your own tools to help maintain the grounds. 

Come along on the morning of the first Tuesday of the month if you want to join in. 

 

 

  PROGRESS  

Hmm...Can't work out why some of these comparison photos will line up next to each other, and why some won't.  Any ideas?

 

 

Floral Art Workshop

A small group of APS NYP members gathered at a Floral Art Workshop this week.  This session was held by another member of our group who is a very talented floral artist.  Here are a couple of pictures of the results from this session.

FARM SHED PROJECT

As mentioned at the meeting last night, we are now looking for donations of tools, used or new to be available  for members working on the FARM SHED garden

Information required

Can anyone assist with the identification of this tree located growing in a Renmark park. I have never seen it in flower but by the size of the seed cases it should be fairly large. All of the seed cases have the same shape so its not the result of an insect attack or such like