I was amazed to read the other day that the Botanic Gardens contain 1/3 of all native Australian plants! With that being something like 78,000 plants I think it may be a while before this blog runs out of material...
Summer is still hanging on in the garden, another warm day brought out plenty of bees and butterflies. I got a couple of nice shots of a bee on
Leptospermum squarrosum and a beautiful
Yellow Admiral butterfly
Vanessa itea on a lovely white flower that I haven't been able to identify.
A few signs of Autumn are around, although not as obvious as they would be back home in the UK (the majority of trees being
Eucalyptus, and Eucalyptus being evergreen!). I came across some glorious orange berries on this native
White Holly bush
Auranticarpa rhombifolia and the autumnal
Banksia 'Giant Candles' that made it clear winter is on its way
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