Showing posts with label Manning Floral Reserve. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Manning Floral Reserve. Show all posts

Friday, July 26, 2024

Celebrating Winter on the Fleurieu Peninsula

 

Kangaroo doe at Mount Bold

Monarch Butterfly, Manning Floral Reserve


Superb Fairywren, Mount Lofty Botanic Gardens

Honeybee and Parrot Pea, Nixon Skinner Reserve

Lambs on Hindmarsh Island

Kangaroo doe at Mount Bold

Golden Wattle at Woorabinda

Almond blossom at Clarendon

Lichen at Mount Lofty Botanic Garden

Joey at Mount Bold


Thursday, December 7, 2023

Wild Orchids - the 2023 Orchid Hunt!

 

Rabbit Ears Sun Orchid at Manning Floral Reserve

Scented Sun Orchid at Spring Gully CP

Spider Orchid, Upper Waterfall, Belair NP

Eastern Donkey Orchid, Nixon Skinner Reserve

The 2023 Orchid Hunt took us to many places and turned up around 20 different species. Here are some of the prettiest and most perfect. South Australia's wild orchids bloom between late August and late October -- after the worst of winter and before the summer heat arrives. Not all orchids are beautiful ... some look distinctly odd, and many are so rare, we've yet to find them. 

Saturday, September 24, 2016

The Dance of the Monarch Butterflies


At Mount Bold Reservoir


...in the garden here at home!


...in a treetop at Manning Floral Reserve


...on a thistle at Belair NP