Photo/s of the day.

[moonvoice]

Moet-head






Acacia merinthropa - Starting to flower, you can see the yellow flowers that will eventually cover all of the weeping branches. This is such an ornamental plant. I'd like to get a couple more. It's a delicate looking plant, but it's fucking robust, and once established requires no water and no fertiliser.





Acacia blossoms up close -





Acacia ashbyaeae (I'm fairly certain that's it). This acacia is just insane, and produces a literally insane amount of blossoms. Again, like the merinthropa, it is incredibly robust, and requires no water or fertiliser (to the point that when I'm handwatering the grevillea, I actually avoid watering these). These will produce round yellow pom poms of flowers, but you can see that even before flowering, the flower buds are pretty. And abundant. We will get native jewel beetles on these.





Grevillea - probably variation 'Gingin Gem.' In full flower, and starting to die off at the base. They look like the most awesome kind of spider-flowers.

Comments

[silverjackal.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous photos, as always. I particularly like the Acacia merinthropa. I was going to say "they use a variety of Acacia here in shelter belts", but I looked it up and it's no longer Acacia, but Vachellia farnesiana (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia_farnesiana). There's also another Acacia I'm certain, but I don't know the species (possibly it's a hybrid). They're great -- drought and saline soil resistant, and nice foliage.

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

Photos of alien garden life forms are always good!! Makes my roses etc. seem quite banal and mundane in comparison...

[shimmerhawk.livejournal.com]

You have the most strange and interesting plants there.

It's always good to see Moet too! Love the cute cat pics.