Wildflower Society of WA in Dunsborough, Western Australia | Gardener

Wildflower Society of WA

Locality: Dunsborough, Western Australia

Address: PO Box 89 6281 Dunsborough, WA, Australia

Website: http://www.wildflowersocietywa.org.au/branches/south-west-capes-branch

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21.01.2022 Dr Kingsley Dixon talking about Orchids. Thanks for coming to visit with Watercorp.

18.01.2022 WINTER ON THE TOBY INLET 11th July 2020 These species are growing in adverse circumstances. On the edge of the Toby, there is uncontrolled Buffalo Grass, and o...ver the road (Caves Road), the Hibbertia cuneiformis hugs the fenceline. Any native plants not on the fenceline are mowed or herbicided. See more

18.01.2022 WINTER FLOWERING AMBERGATE, BUSSELTON 22nd June 2020 Mainly Conospermum sp. Busselton (an informal name) There is work being done on this apparently unique spe...cies, but I don't think a formal name has been achieved. This species has mostly been removed/destroyed for housing and roadworks in Busselton. Our nursery has a contract with DBCA and the Water Corporation to grow several hundred plants. We have propagated this species before, and one ended up at the WA Herbarium garden. Unfortunately, that plant died quite recently after a fairly long life. We had this species also in a public town garden in the centre of Busselton, but here too, it died (natural death) after flourishing and spreading over an extraordinarily wide area. The species has a central tap root and grows as a rosette, with flowering stems radiating from the centre. It can easily be over 2m in diameter. When there are lots of plants growing together, the overlapping plants provide a carpet of blue in the Winter. It is commonly called Blue Brother. Here, it is growing in a firebreak by a rubbish dump. Although a disturbed site, and maybe BECAUSE it is a disturbed site, there is an interesting assortment of recruitment, something maybe not so easily seen in thick natural bush

17.01.2022 Chorizema rhombeum Meelup, Dunsborough 25th September 2020 I had not really thought about collecting seed or growing it, but this year, found it in Bunnings grown by Plantrite (David Lullfitz). I have it in a trough, and it has been delightful.

17.01.2022 AMBERGATE RESERVE, BUSSELTON and along Queen Elizabeth Avenue to the reserve 21st July 2020... Grevillea brachystylis subsp. brachystylis P3 Conospermum flexuosum subsp. laevigatum Acacia flagelliformis P4 Hakea varia One can only imagine what this area was like before clearing. Ambergate Reserve gives us a snapshot, but it is vastly modified. For this area, we have to go back to the mid-1800s, but I suspect, most of the clearing was done after1900.

16.01.2022 AMBERGATE RESERVE, BUSSELTON 5th August 2020

15.01.2022 TRYMALIUM LEDIFOLIUM VAR. ROSMARINIFOLIUM What would we do without Rosemary, Lavender, Marjoram, ... ? Some of our native Australian plants have Rosemary, Lave...nder, or Marjoram in their species' names. e.g. Grevillea rosmarinifolia Grevillea lavandulacea, Spyridium majoranifolium, Lasiopetalum rosmarinifolium, Ricinocarpos rosmarinifolium, ... Interestingly, Spyridium majoranifolium used to be Trymalium majoranifolium. This Trymalium was standing out on my travels this week. It was growing roadside on a gravelly slope. It is a road I drive on often, but I have never seen it before. Why? I am annoyed with myself for not noticing it! Sometimes this species is growing with a large number of plants together, but here, just two. I am ashamed that I have never grown it before, but I must make amends. It is a charming species. In the Hazel Cole Eagle Bay garden, Hazel had Trymalium odoratissimum, but I'm pretty sure that it was a local plant self-sowing occasionally. I am going to keep watch on these plants as I'm very interested in drought tolerance of garden plants, and the lifespan of our native plants, either in the wild, or in gardens.

14.01.2022 HAKEA LISSOCARPHA, HAKEA TRIFURCATA, CHORIZEMA CORDATUM Meelup and Dunsborough 9th July 2020

11.01.2022 FROST GARDEN, YOONGARILLUP 5th August 2020 Photos from a friend's garden taken June 2020 - my friend doesn't do Facebook, but after some persuasion, photos on a... memory stick! Some of this garden is a refugea for the species grown at the Dunsborough Hazel Cole garden. Mostly Western Australian + a couple of eastern states' correas ES. All these propagated at the Geographe Community Landcare Nursery, Busselton.

06.01.2022 FLOWERING NOW - QUINDALUP ON THE TOBY INLET 12th August 2020 Acacia cochlearis is coming out now, some plants still in bud. It is a great acacia for gardens, a...lthough it can be quite large. On the coast, it is dwarfed by the wind. Acacia cochlearis is endemic to Western Australia. Leucopogon parviflorus is also dwarfed near the coast, but here, near the Toby Inlet, it can be quite tall - over 3m. Leucopogons are rarely grown in nurseries, but our nursery (Geographe, Busselton) managed some of this species this year. It is more common to find it in eastern states' nurseries as the species grows widely in southern Australia, and as far north as Maryborough in Queensland.

06.01.2022 EARLY SPRING in the South West Capes [that's the name of our Wildflower Society branch] 3rd September 2020

05.01.2022 OUT AND ABOUT TODAY Not seed collecting, but coming back from playing at a concert - Telemann, Fasch, Elgar, Mendelssohn. Playing a grand, which is a bit unusua...l - as I normally play organ or Baroque harpsichord these days. Spring is certainly busting our all over. Coming back to the nursery to dio some very exciting cuttings this afternoon, including a new dwarf Agonis flexuosa, ..., I travelled through from Margaret River to Ambergate.

05.01.2022 HOVEA ELLIPTICA DUNSBOROUGH 28th July 2020 Marri Reserve