We came from here: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1110728/
Took the liberty of starting a new thread, hope no one minded. Got together a collection of photos of local native plants in the wild during the last couple of weeks while working.
Hibiscus zonatus, inhabitant of sandstone country.
It flowers well into the dry season. But like other Hibiscus its flowers are short lived. It seeds prolifically and often forms dense stands where it occurs.
Pretty certain this is Capparis jacobsii. The flower's getting close to the "end". It's a medium sized sort of a shrubby vine, although mostly shrub.
Brachychiton paradoxus is a spindly woody shrub that looses all its leaves in the dry season and is covered with these red flowers.
Looking more like something out of a marine environment, Cycas calcicola putting out new flushes.
New flushes with an old male cone.
Flushes at a different stage.
A look down onto the opened out fronds
This one will probably cause a bit of misunderstanding. Flowers of Eucalyptus miniata get chewed up by nectar feeding parrots. Some flowers drop whole to the ground or, like this one, onto another plant. There'll be some passers-by who'll think it's the Cycad flowering.
Male cone of Cycas armstrongii, another of our many local Cycads.
Just yesterday I was walking in an area carpeted with a lot of Hoya australis ssp rupicola. This one is growing up onto a Ficus platypoda.
Some of the Hoya leaves were getting a distinct reddish blush, although it doesn't show up so strong in this photo.
The Hoya were generally finished flowering, with old withered flowers and seed pods forming. This peduncle, however, looks like it's going to have another go at flowering.
Now a few of the palms of the area, This is Livistona inermis, a beautiful slender palm that produces a mass of white flowers within its canopy which are visible a long way off. It looks great when the hillsides are covered in masses of the palm in flower.
A palm of monsoon forests and creek lines, Hydriastele wendlandiana. A tall slender delicate looking feather palm.
They form multiple trunks.
One of our most common palms, both in the wild and in gardens, Carpentaria acuminata. (I like looking up into palm canopies.)
Waterlilies are flowering madly away now in the waterways. We have white, blue and this colour.
It's actually the same colour as our native Lotus.
Come the dry season Calytrix exstipulata shrubs simply blaze with colour all over the country side making a striking visual.
Closer up.
One of our mistletoes. Didn't think they flowered in the dry season until I saw this one the other day. Looks like Amyema sanguinea.
Some of the landscape I've been working in for the past few months.
Same area.
One of the local inhabitants, Mertens Water Monitor/Goanna. He wasn't going to go away any time fast, at up to 1.5 metres long these can inflict a lot of damage if tangled with the wrong way.
Monsoon forest
WOW! Thanks for sharing your beautiful country!
Florence Falls
No worries LiliMerci, the internet's a wonderful window into may places.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=7939875
may I ask what kind of work you do? many people here would envy your "office quarters". they have to make themselves happy w/ sterile cubicles.
Are you near the Kimberleys?
Well I was off line for a few days but here is my creole tomato, purple hyacinth bean and my little cutie!!!!!
Tropibreeze, thanks for the new thread. Fantastic pictures!!
Mjponies, thanks for showing us your little piece of paradise. I will copy your ladder trellis, it is a great idea. I like the Hoya area as well. I have a similar set-up with mine.
I do have that Dianthera nodesa on my list already, it will brighten up my shady area.
New banana plant from Lowes. 'Musa Margarita' I bought two for $8.each.
digge9083, thanks, I have to agree, those are weird blooms on the artichoke plant.
Joeswife, I like your picture of your Brug.Kaitlyn. It is getting that time where you can sit back and enjoy your blooms.
I hope that your Chalice vine flower for you this fall.
Lots of volunteer Castor bean plant.
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pensacolagarden, good job on those tomatoes, they look delicious.
Metrosideros, a bloom for you!!
New plant, Posoqueria latifolia 'Belize'
pensacolagarden, your tomato's look great for this time of year in Florida. I just planted "inferno something or other"...supposed to be very heat tolerant and "indeterminate vs determinate ', so I hope to extend the crop for a bit. My White Eggplant and purple and red peppers as well as sweet banana pepper's are still doing well. And I have enough Cucumber's that I'm making every Cold Cucumber Soup Recipe I can find !
Prita, I have several new beds I'm building, I will try to post pictures of. I could use some suggestions for front of a shady border, low, flat, spreading. I'd love more Hosta's, lost alot of them last winter. Actually all but one.
I'm almost ready to give up on the Brug's. They just aren't growing well, and every time I turn around something has chewed them. I have so much that is Butterfly/Hummer friendly, both host and nectar, I'm very hesitant to use chemicals.
Was at Lowe's today and picked up a Kanagroo Paw half price ! I've been looking at them but refused to pay $16.00 for the pot. $8.00 YUP, it came home with me and there's enough in the pot to divide it already.
I haven't grown Castor Bean plant....have to put that one on my list.
Candy Corn Plant..Cuphea micropetala
Rita, thanks for saving seeds for me from your Amaranth and that is one nice looking Posoqueria latifolia. I have never heard of it. You alway's have some very interesting plants to show.
Debra, you have that begonia looking excellent and great growing with those new leaves on your Alocasia plant.
I did a little shopping on Ebay a while back and was lucky enough to find a starter plant labeled Philodendron andreanum x verrucosum. I will enjoy watching this one grow.
I am not in florida any longer I am in NY and this tomato I bought back from new orleans in march.
