Wildflowers in bloom during our spring downunder.

Another fabulous blog Bernieh !! All beautiful, but the Scholtzia was particularly striking ! :-))

Have to agree with you Sue - I love the little heart-shaped leaves as well as those little flowers. It's unfortunate that it hasn't been cultivated, so we'd have to travel to W.A. to see it.

Wonderful and amazing plants Bernieh :-))

I'm game !!! lol :-)))

Sue - it's definitely on my must-do list - my father went on a Wildflower Tour in W.A. many years ago and he still talks about it. I myself saw some when we were touring Oz a few years back and it's a spectacle you just can't describe well with just words.

beautiful photos

Beautiful flowers bernieh............

Absolutly breath taking and you say they are wild flowers wow.I wouldn't mind a garden full of those.

Tulsalady just said what I was going to say....lol

Thery are all gorgeous love the Scholtzia, best how lucky to have such wild flowers

Would you mind adding your Aveator to Bscotts blog against the declawing of cats in the usa, as N2organics is having his cats claws removed as its a thing in usa.

Bernieh
just been back to 2003 amazing colour, missed seeing any Wild Orchids do they flower a different time of year.

great blog featuring one of my favs the protea family...definately on my wish list...maybe we could swop some of our weeds...sorry wild flowers...dandylion anyone???

May be some with a rabbit will swop Sandra as they love the leaf of dandelions.

when the kids had rabbits they would hunt the garden for them..but now they are battling with the clover to take over my lawn...

I use to have 4 leaf clovers in one garden, thought of selling them lol

lovely colours there, wouldnt mind them wild flowers in my garden :o)

You have lovely wild flowers.

this is a lovely blog. thanks for the stunning photos.

Great pics...love the isopogon formosus...what a fab colour!

Goodness! I would never have believed that they were wild flowers - so beautiful! Thanks for showing us. :-))

Bjs - you've picked up on one of the missing sections in the Kings Park Wildflower Festival. I think perhaps it's because most of the wildflowers they put on display come from Western Australia and they're famous for all their native species - but the native orchids mostly grow in eastern and south-eastern Oz. They would certainly be in bloom at this time of year - maybe one day they'll make an appearance at the festival.

I wouldn’t weed if my weeds looked half as good as yours!

Lovely to see such colour esp as winter approaches here we can enjoy your summers...obviously nothing as spectacular in my garden but do have a tea tree oil plant which believe may be a distant relative to some of these lol

Thanks for such lovely photos, not much colour left over here as winter gets closer.

Thanks for these photos Bernieh. Reminds of my brief visit to Perth a few years back. I was only there for two days but I spent one of them in the Botanic Gardens which they were in the process of replanting with just West Australian natives

Beautiful flowers and to think they are wild flowers they would grace any garden border thanks for sharing x

Wow the Proteas have done well, as they are not indigenous to Aussie, but to South Africa, the Cape province. I have tried & tried growing them, but alas too cold here in Canada..
Fabulous to see all those beautiful flowers growing Down Under. Great blog.

Thanks all - yes these wild flowering plants are among Australia's 25,000 plant species. Western Australia has about half of them with the majority being found nowhere else on Earth.

Andrewr - the Botanic Gardens in Perth is definitely on my list along with the Wildflower Tour ... I would want to be there for the Kings Park Wildflower Festival!!

really like the dryandra. thnx

What a wonderful world we have - thank you for your photos they are lovely

Yes, I must agree with everybody's comments above as the flowers are stupendous! I've always had an eye out for wild flowers, aka, weeds! When you think about it ALL our garden plants started out as weeds - sorry, wild flowers! It just that over 1000s of years of selective breeding they have become our garden plants.

There are plants on my balcony, that while lovely, have some characteristics of weeds - like popping up all over the place & in other pots or even in the patch of grass beyond the balcony!
Just this year I've seen Pansies that had self seeded into the grass. I even got a couple of photos of them before the council gardeners cut them down with their strimmers.

Other years I've seen Lobelias growing amongst the grass as well, but then I've seen Lobelias growing in cracks in the paving around the pub a couple of minutes walk away. They obviously came from the hanging baskets they used to have on the walls. Now they have changed them for plastic flowers!

This year a whole crop of Nasturtiums sprouted in the grass. They managed to put on a few pairs of leaves till the council gardeners came along once again with their strimmers.

Another plant that seeds in many of my pots, but I can't remember having seen in the patch of grass, is Impatiens or Busy Lizzies. They grow up in any pot but I like to see what colour they will be so I almost always leave them to grow. Occasionally I will dig out a few seedlings & pot them up.

Have had impatiens pop up in my staghorn ferns - they are just brilliant at self-seeding! Nasturtiums are another - once had a nasturtium appear under my old concrete washing tub on the back patio of my previous house - when I investigated I found another one under the house! - the house was raised off the ground.

Doon, Proteas are native to Australia, South Africa and South America. About half the worldwide species are found in Australia.

They sure knock dandelions into a cocked hat;-)))

they're lovely bernieh :) I'm looking forward to sharing your summer with you, which will be far more interesting than sitting looking at mud all winter LOL

Thanks Grindle - I hope I'll have something interesting to share ... hopefully it won't be too harsh a summer.

It seems so odd to hear summer being referred to as harsh, that's a word we associate with winter:-) Which is your favourite season Bernieh?

Harsh is probably not the right word Bornagain - it can be downright atrocious! It's usually horrendous outdoors during our summer - heat and humidity (which means you sweat a lot!), high UV levels which causes your skin to burn pretty quickly if you're out in the middle of the day, very long days when it seems the sun never goes down, relentless driving monsoonal rain (if we're lucky) and the threat of cyclones and bushfires! I don't spend a lot of time out in the garden - so it has to take care of itself.

My favourite season is definitely the winter - cooler temps., bright blue sunny skies, and you can spend all day out in the garden if you wish. Of course winter is in the middle of the long dry spell we experience here - so the place does look rather dry.

If only we could mix and match our weather bernieh:-) Don't want the bush fires though they must be terrifying....oh.. or the cyclones...or the monsoonial rain! I guess you've earned the beautiful wild flora:-)

Of course not all of Oz is the same - some parts do have a more reasonable summer and don't have the cyclones or monsoonal rain - bushfires are a common threat to most areas though and some places get the most fantastic storms. There's really nowhere though that gets very harsh winters - we actually don't get snow in many places at all over here. Here's hoping we're both headed into a reasonable season.

Hear hear or is it here here? I can't remember seeing it written down:-)

Lovely flowers up there in QLD Bernieh...

:o)))))

Your wildflowers are beautiful!

Thanks! For showing us such Beauty.

Bernieh you are so lucky, having Wild Flowers like these.......Your Wildlife
are spoilt!!!

Freesiaperson x