Adelaide, South Australia, 11 July 2024.

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Most of the images are from Witunga Botanic Garden, in the suburbs of Adelaide, with collections of plants from South Africa and Australia.

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Eucalypt flowers.

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Mimetes cucullatus (South Africa).

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Protea lanceolata (South Africa).

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Protea neriifolia (blue sugarbush/ South Africa).

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Leucadendron spissifolium ssp phillipsii (South Africa).

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Aloe marlothii (mountain aloe, South Africa).

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Banksia, I think Banksia praemorsa.

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Banksia praemorsa (cut-leaf banksia).

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Eastern Rosella (patycercus eximius eximius).

(Same subspecies as we have in Canberra.  Slightly different subspecies in Queensland and Tasmania).

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Hakea petiolaris (broad-leaved sea-urchin).

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Looks like a grevillea.

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New Holland Honeyeater (in eucalypt in flower).

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Noisy Miner.

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Rainbow lorikeet.

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New Holland Honeyeater.

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New Holland Honeyeater.

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Hakea multilineata (grass-leaved hakea, S.A., W.A.).

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Pukeko or Australasian Swamphen.

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Banksia, obviously, don’t know variety.

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Hakea cristata (snail hakea, W.A.).

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Adenanthos sericeus (“Silver Sensation”).

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Funghi.

(Mount Lofty Botanic Garden from here).

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Adelaide Rosella.

This is a natural hybrid subspecies of the crimson rosella (crimson breast) and yellow rosella (subspecies with yellow breast) for an orange breast.

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Fern frond.

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Autumn colours.

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Patterns in bark.

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Old house.

We came in at the lower part of Mt Lofty Botanic Garden.  You can walk to the upper part but it’s a steep walk of two kilometres each way and we had neither the time or the inclination.  So we left the park and drove around.  Near the upper entrance to the park we found this old ruined nineteenth century building, probably not a farmhouse though.  It appeared to have been burned out.

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The last two images are in the upper part of the botanic garden, in a corner with considerable variation in the colours of the foliage.

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(There will be a very different version of this image in the next post, in infrared).

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