13-APR-2016
Birds' favourites
Looking back towards our house from the horseyard fence & top side (SW) of the rose garden
where you can see the golden elm, cordyline, cedar and eucalyptus trees. You can
see why we have such an active bird population around our place, I often find a nest
in a rosebush.
03-APR-2016
Golden Elm in early autumn
A beautiful shady tree, so cooling for taking a spell under when outside working
in the garden. It is a backdrop for the rose garden, and a welcoming sight to
see from the gazebo. This year we had to deal with a grub that suddenly attacked
90% of the leaves, but Dick managed to wipe out the grub infestation by encircling
each branch with sticky tape so when the grubs came down out of the tree to
possibly multiply they encountered the tape and got stuck there until they died. The tree
has now made a recovery.
19-MAR-2016
Firewheel Tree
Stenocarpus sinuatus.. the Queensland Firewheel (or Wheel of Fire) Tree apparently also grows in California
but mine grows on the edge of the rose garden, close to a huge trellis that is covered
in the single rose Laevigata or Cherokee. This tree is quite slow growing and because
of the closeness of the trellis has a clematis attaching itself through the top of the tree
giving some colour before the tree does its thing with these red strange looking whorls.
This tree is related to the popular macadamia.
15-MAR-2016
Ginkgo biloba leaves
A close up for the first turning leaves at the start of autumn here
in southern Australia. Hopefully the tree will retain the leaves
until May when a whole tree in colour is a breathtaking sight to see.
10-DEC-2006
Linden Tree
Showing some signs of the effects of this year's drought, we haven't had rain since
September, and we've just had 2 days over 40-C In the background you can see a
melaleuca hedge in full bloom.
Flowering Plum Tree
Prunus x blireiana, the purple leafed plum with single pink flowers which flowers late
August. It turned out to be a bad choice for us, our aspect is too windy and the wind
damages the fragile blossoms so they don't last very long. I managed to capture a few
pictures of the blossom this year (2004).
Our dam & horse paddocks
We have a stock dam between two horse paddocks where rainfall can be saved and used. Around the dam Dick has fenced off an area where he is regenerating scrub and keeping the animals away to give the new planting a chance to grow. A couple of original ancient trees were already in residence in this area. Our dam is within a chain of 8 dams - ours is the 2nd in line going gradually down to an area the locals call "scrubby gully" There's a few shots taken of our mini arboretum taken in June 2007.
Ginkgo biloba
The Maidenhair Fern Tree aka Duck's Foot Tree....
Trees & plantlife on our Road Verge.
A variety of eucalyptus, some self-sown, others planted by the locals.
June 20, 2004
Flowering cherry in winter
Prunus serrulata 'Mt. Fuji'
last few leaves still in tact in a sheltered section of the tree.
June 05 - 2004
Horse-paddocks in morning sunlight
self-sown gums (eucalypts) in one of our horse paddocks
on a cool winter's morn.
Taken with my point & shoot camera, which is better for close ups than scenery pictures.
May 30 - 2004
Colony of self-sown trees
E. leucoxylon
growing in horse holding paddock
alongside my country rose garden
