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Asphodel (Asphodelus): the land of spirits. In Greek mythology, a field of asphodels in the underworld was the dwelling place of neutral souls.

Dame Violet (Hesperis matronalis): watchfulness

Black bindweed (Dioscorea communis): support

Boxwood (Buxus): Constancy in friendship. Labyrinthine hedge mazes are traditionally made of boxwood shrubs.

Rattlesnake root ( Prenanthes purpurea): protection, shield, guarded steps. This plant was thought to grant protection from being caught up in a group of supposed to “friends” who are in actuality threatening and dangerous.

Heath (Epacris impressa): solitude

Witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana): a spell is on me.

Straw: constancy. Broken straw: broken contract, trouble.

Corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas): good and evil, light and darkness, life and death, fun-loving, avoidance of problems, oblivion. The ancient Greeks believed that corn would not grow without poppies growing nearby. In Greek and Roman myths, poppies were used as offerings to the dead and in modern times are often a motif found on tombstones. Poppies are some of the first flowers to fill holes in disturbed ground, so old battlefields often fill with poppy.

Giant milkweed (Calotropis procera): purposelessness, a monstrosity

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Football kit news from the A-League as the new Melbourne Victory 2023-24 Macron away kit has been officially unveiled. Melbourne Victory 2023-24 Macron Away Jersey The new 2023-24 Melbourne Victory away kit is inspired by the specific pink shade of the ‘Epacris Impressa’, the state flower of Victoria and sees a pale pink jersey featuring a navy blue collar. Melbourne Victory 2023-24 Macron…

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Very exciting news I've been sitting on for a while! Three pieces of mine are currently up in a local earth-themed exhibition, with this first piece featuring common heath or Epacris impressa. 🌏

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Common heath... by Ewunchik

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Early Spring in Victoria's forest, a world of pink. Epacris impressa, the floral emblem of Victoria. Kinglake National Park, 20 Sep 2017.

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"Pink Heath Tesseleidoscope" (2017) Epacris impressa in Lerderderg State Park, Victoria, Australia. Victoria's famous Pink Heath deserved something dainty. It reminds me of wallpaper.

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Wildflowers of the Illawarra

This wildflower season I have stayed local due to travel restrictions, which has meant I have walked the Illawarra escarpment a lot more than I normally would. Usually in the winter wildflower season we would travel to the Blue mountains or further west or even north for outdoor adventuring and bush exploring. So it has been a nice change to notice more closely the bush at my back door.

Boronia pinnata

This post is just a sample of the glory on offer, above you can see Boronia pinnata in full bloom, there is a stand of these as you walk along the top of the escarpment from Stanwell Park to Sublime Point and the smell is well …’Sublime’

Boronia pinnata

Boronia pinnata is loved by bees as well as humans but in my opinion is best admired in the bush rather than battling to grow it at home.

Thelymitra ixioides – Sun Orchid

A little further done the track were plenty of Sun Orchids or Thelymitra ixioides, these seem to pop their pretty heads up out of seemingly dry rocky soil.

Ricinocarpos pinifolius

The wedding Bush or Ricinocarpos pinifolius is also having a wonderful flowering season, I spotted it in Maddens Plains, Kellys Falls, Robertson Lookout and Dark’s Forest, it really is the purest white and the picture of innocence 😉

Ricinocarpos pinifolius

This shrub is worth a trying to grow yourself, it likes great drainage and a full sun to part shade position and it should reward you with a stunning flower display from Winter through to Spring.

Bauera rubioides

Bauera rubioides of course is everywhere, what a wonderful wildflower! it flowers for a long time and is quite common, unfortunately it is another one that can be difficult to grow in a home garden as it requires steady moisture on a well drained sandstone 🤔

Epacris microphylla

Epacris microphylla is a dainty scrambling low shrub which can flower for much of the year and as long as it doesn’t dry out completely is a rewarding wildflower to try in your garden.

Epacris microphylla

I have found Epacris microphylla easier to grow then longiflora but not as easy as impressa, what is your experience with growing Epacris?

Hakea sericea

This specimen of Hakea sericea was in Darks Forest, this is a fantastic habitat shrub and caters for many different birds, not to mention the bees. Watch out as it is super prickly but always so spectacular when in flower.

Phebalium squamulosum

This is my favourite wildflowerof the Illawarra, Phebalium squamulosum now this could be a sub species I am not sure. There are quite a few variations of the species and they can look different depending where they grow. The Phevalium above was growing 20kms from the one below….

Phebalium squamulosum

Phebalium is also one of my favourite understory plants to use in native garden design, it is very versatile and quite forgiving as long as you don’t over water it!

Actinotus helianthi

And last but not least the Flannel Flower, these are not really that common in the Illawarra so when you see them it is pretty special. Lucky for us they are easy to grow in your garden and well worth a try as a first time wildflower grower. I am very thankful to live in such a beautiful and unique part of the world and lucky to have the time to observe it in more detail, happy wandering everyone!

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Australia's National and State Flowers

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Waves of Color Across the Country

Australia is covered with the glorious and varied colors of an abundance of wildflowers. Each state and territory has its own flower, and Australia has its own national flower. As you drive through the Australian countryside, you are sure to spot many of these native flowers.

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Australia’s National Flower: The Golden Wattle

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You'll find the golden wattle, or Acacia pycnantha, growing in the wild in many parts of Australia, such as in South Australia's Eyre Peninsula, western Victoria, and southern inland areas of New South Wales. It typically grows to about 13 to 26 feet.

Acacia is the largest genus in the family Mimosaceae, the Mimosa family, which is mainly tropical and sub-tropical. Mature golden wattle plants are said to be reasonably frost- and drought-tolerant. The specimen here was planted in the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney in 1987.

Because native golden wattle grew naturally in the Australian Capital Territory and had other desirable features including design potential, it had popular support to be Australia's national flower. It was proclaimed Australia's national flower in 1988, the year of Australia's bicentenary. In 1992, Sept. 1 was formally declared National Wattle Day.

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Australian Capital Territory: Royal Bluebell

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The royal bluebell, Wahlenbergia gloriosa, is the floral emblem of the Australian Capital Territory. It's native to the region, and that was the main criterion for choosing it as the floral emblem. But other desirable features of the royal bluebell include horticultural merit and design potential, both in naturalistic and stylized representations.

Wahlenbergia gloriosa belongs to the Campanulaceae family. It is a small perennial herb with oblong leaves about an inch long. The leaf margins are conspicuously waved.

The violet-blue flowers are up to an inch or so in diameter and often appear to have a paler center because of the light blue base of the petals combined with the purple style, which ends in two white stigmas. The flowers may be erect or nodding and are carried on long, slender stems.

A related species belonging to the Campanulaceae family is the great blue lobelia, also known as the cardinal flower.

In the Australian Capital Territory, the royal bluebell can be found in sub-alpine woodland. It is a legally protected plant throughout its occurrence in the wild.

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New South Wales: Waratah

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The waratah, Telopea speciosissima, is the state flower of New South Wales. It belongs to the Proteaceae family, which includes the protea or sugarbush.

It is fairly widespread on the Central Coast and nearby mountains and grows mainly in open forest as a shrub up to 13 feet tall. It also grows and flourishes in gardens.

The waratah is distinguished by a mass of deep red flowers grouped in rounded heads two to four inches in diameter surrounded by crimson bracts. It was proclaimed the official floral emblem of New South Wales in 1962. The waratah flowers from September to November with nectar-seeking birds acting as pollinators.

Telopea is derived from the Greek telopos, meaning “seen from afar.” Speciosissima is the superlative of the Latin speciosus, meaning “beautiful” or “handsome.” Waratah is the Aboriginal name for the species.

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Northern Territory: Sturt’s Desert Rose

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Sturt's desert rose (also known as Sturt desert rose), Gossypium sturtianum, is the floral emblem of Australia's Northern Territory.

The specific and varietal names, sturtianum, honor Australian explorer Capt. Charles Sturt (1795-1869), who first collected the species “in the beds of the creeks on the Barrier Range” during his journey to central Australia in 1844 to 1845. Gossypium belongs to the hibiscus family, Malvaceae, which is widespread in tropical and temperate regions of the world. It is related to the cotton plant, which also belongs to the Malvaceae family.

Sturt's desert rose forms a relatively compact shrub about 3 feet with dark green round-to-oval leaves usually with black stipples. The flowers have mauve petals about two inches long with red bases forming a contrasting center.

Sturt's desert rose has also been known as Darling River rose, cotton rosebush, and Australian cotton.

It can be found on stony or rocky slopes or in dry creek beds around Alice Springs and in the southern part of the Northern Territory, northeastern South Australia, western Queensland, western New South Wales, and parts of northern Western Australia.

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Queensland: Cooktown Orchid

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The Cooktown orchid, Dendrobium phalaenopsis, is the state flower of Queensland. Originally thought to be Dendrobium bigibbum, the correct botanical name for the Cooktown orchid has been the subject of speculation and debate.

In fact, when the Cooktown orchid was proclaimed the floral emblem of Queensland in 1959, it was under the botanical name of Dendrobium bigibbum var. phalaenopsis. But it appeared that when British botanist John Lindley (1799-1865) named the plant, it was not to be found near Cooktown, the north Queensland town after which the orchid was named.

In 1880, New South Wales Surveyor-General Robert FitzGerald described Dendrobium phalaenopsis as “obtained near Cooktown.” A color plate of the orchid, which he published in December that year, is said to clearly illustrate the plant now known as the Cooktown orchid, which FitzGerald described as “obtained in northern Queensland.”

The generic name Dendrobium comes the Greek dendron (tree) and bios (life). Many species of this genus are to be found on tree trunks and branches. The specific name phalaenopsis comes from the Greek phalaina (moth). The flower of the Cooktown orchid resembles a moth.

The plants grow to 32 inches tall and have three to 20 flowering canes with three-to-six lance-shaped leaves. Each stem has up to 20 flowers that are shades of lilac and sometimes white. It flowers during the dry season. 

The Cooktown orchid is found in its natural habitat in northern Queensland, from Johnston River near Innisfail south of Cairns to Iron Range in the Cape York Peninsula.

Although found in tropical districts with very high summer rainfall, the Cooktown orchid is not a rainforest species. It grows in exposed situations usually attached to tree trunks.

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South Australia: Sturt’s Desert Pea

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Sturt's desert pea, Swainsona formosa, is the state flower of South Australia. It was adopted as the state's floral emblem in 1961.

First discovered by the English explorer William Dampier on his 1688 visit to islands off the northwestern Australian coast, the plant's presence was noted by Australian explorer Charles Sturt in 1844 in areas between Adelaide and Central Australia. The flower was named after Sturt to commemorate his exploration of inland Australia.

Sturt's desert pea was formerly called Clianthus formosus and is also known as Willdampia formosa (named after Dampier). The specific name formosa is Latin for “beautiful.”

Sturt's desert pea is a slow-growing, creeping plant with stems and leaves appearing soft gray because of a covering of fine hairs. The flowers stand upright on fleshy stalks, up to 12 inches tall. The large pea flower can be in various shades of red, with a base of deep red to purple to black.

The genus name Swainsona honors English botanist Isaac Swainson, who maintained a private botanic garden near London in the late 18th century. The former name, Clianthus, is now thought to be confined to New Zealand.

Sturt's desert pea can be found in arid woodlands and on open plains, often as an ephemeral after heavy rain. It is able to withstand temperature extremes in inland deserts, and established plants can tolerate light frosts.

A protected species in South Australia, Sturt's desert pea flowers and plants must not be collected on private land without the written consent of the owner. Collection on Crown land is illegal without a permit.

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Tasmania: Tasmanian Blue Gum

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The Tasmanian blue gum, Eucalyptus glololus Labill, is Tasmania's floral emblem.

The Tasmanian blue gum flowers, larger than those of other Tasmanian eucalypts, usually occur singly in the axils of the leaves. Up to three-quarters of an inch in diameter, the flower buds have coarse ribs and are closed by an operculum, or cap, of sepals and petals.

When the blue gum blooms in early summer, the cap is shed, revealing large numbers of white stamens arranged in several rows near the outside. A thick nectar-secreting disc extends partly over the top of the ovary.

Found throughout the Australian island state of Tasmania, including the historic Royal Hobart Botanical Gardens, the Tasmanian blue gum grows largely in southern and eastern Tasmania and in the middle reaches of the Derwent River. It can grow up to 200 feet tall.

It has been introduced in other parts of the world and can be found in California, the Mediterranean region, parts of Africa and India, Chile, Argentina, and New Zealand.

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Victoria: Common Heath

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The common heath, Epacris impressa, has the distinction of being the first flower to be officially proclaimed an Australian state floral emblem.

It was agreed at a meeting in 1951 by representatives of interested government departments, societies, and individuals to name the common heath as the floral emblem of Victoria. The official proclamation of Victoria's state flower was made in 1958.

The generic name Epacris comes from the Greek epi (upon) and akris (hill) and refers to the elevated habitat of some of its species. While the flower is certainly impressive, particularly when blooming en masse, impressa is Latin for “impressed” or “indented” and refers to five dimples on the outside of the basal part of the floral tube.

The flower has a number of color forms: pure white, pale pink, rose pink, crimson, scarlet, and rare double-flowered forms. The pink form is the official state flower of Victoria.

The flowers are tubular and sometimes densely packed around the stem in the leaf axils. This gives the flower cluster a cylindrical, brush-like appearance.

A slender, upright shrub growing to 3 feet or so in height, the common heath flowers from late autumn to late spring, peaking in winter.

In Victoria, the common heath is found in coastal regions and nearby foothills, the Grampians, and the Little Desert. It also grows in New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania.

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Western Australia: Red and Green Kangaroo Paw

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The red and green kangaroo paw, Anigozanthos manglesii, is Western Australia's floral emblem. Plants of the genus Anigozanthos have an inflorescence bearing a resemblance to the paw of a kangaroo.

The specific name, manglesii, honors an Englishman, Robert Mangles, who raised the red and green kangaroo paw in his Berkshire garden in the 1830s from seed sent from Australia.

The red and green kangaroo paw is a low shrub growing from an underground stem, with leaves about two-to-four feet long. The flowering stem grows to about three feet tall. 

The stem and the bases of the flowers are usually deep red and covered with wooly hairs. The color then changes abruptly to a brilliant green for most of the length of the flower, which splits open to show a smooth, pale green interior.

The red and green kangaroo paw flowers in its natural habitat between August and October. It occurs naturally in Western Australia in heath on sandy soil from the Murchison River in the north to Busselton and Mount Barker in the south and Lake Muir to the east, and on gravel type soil of lateritic origin in the Darling Range.

Sources: The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, Parliament of Tasmania, and Australian National Botanic Gardens

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