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  • Autumn Wasp Orchid (Chiloglottis Reflexa)
  • Plain-Lip Spider-orchid (Caladenia clacigera)
  • Ornate-Pink-Fingers-Caladenia-ornata Ornate Pink Fingers (Caladenia ornata)
  • Tiger-orchid-flower-Diuris-sulphurea-in-flower Tigers, Tigers, Tigers!
  • parsons-Bands-Orchids- Orchid Season Starts Again: Parsons Bands
  • Golden-moth-orchid-flower-close-up Golden Moth Orchid (Diuris chryseopsis)
  • bird-orchid-leaves-on-earth A Second Pair of Eyes (or three, or four)
  • nodding-greenhood-orchids-among-leaves Inspired by the Ballarat Field Naturalists
  • Small-mosquito-orchid-flowers-open-at different-angles Wild Flower Hunting for Beginners: Ten Tips
  • White-flowering-common-heath Autumn Wild Flower Walks (8 photos)

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We only get a few plants each year, but the flowers of the Slender Mint (Mentha diemenica) flowers catch the eye through the browns and yellow-greens of summer. I never see this one in native plant nurseries. They seem to focus on River Mint.
It was a busy lead-up to Christmas, and every time I went outside I was delighted to see clouds of butterflies. So many this year. I haven’t had time to check, but this one is probably a Common Brown. We usually have plenty of these. They were all over the teatrees.
A Grey Shrike-thrush has nested in the wood shed, taking advantage of the bark on the floor from wood splitting. When the female flew off the nest for a few minutes, we climbed a ladder to peek in.
A few wildflowers from my walk up the back at lunchtime today.
These are just a handful of the photographs of pea-flowers growing in the bushland on our place in Spring. I’m still working out the species. At least a few Dilwynia.
In the grassland part@of our place, we have some Spiny-headed Mat-rush (Lomandra longifolia) growing,and they’re in flower right now. I notice they were shown on Gardening Australia on Friday night.

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