This week's star of the bush- theoretically a Blue Flag, but all the ones I saw were a reddish lilac I shouldn’t have said that about the Lechenaultia being stayers. This week they have almost gone and the bush is the poorer for the loss of their vibrant colours. While there are still a few new flowers, these are more subdued and with a few notable exceptions, namely the fringed lilies and the purple flag, it is the season of seed heads and grasses and a sense of nature turning inwards to get on with its real business of making fruit and fat rhizomes out of that glorious floral display. The co -flowering Fringed Lily is also reddish lilac in this area There is no sign now of last week’s magnificent “Blue Ladies” which, like the enamel flower which I also saw, are in fact covert orchids according to my guru in such matters, Ray from G’day from WA who says that their central petals just look “like the other petals to mimic co-blooming blue flowers.” Speaking of ...
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