
My boys have just headed back to school after our 'spring break'. We have four school terms here, broken up with a two week break between terms 1, 2 & 3 and then six weeks summer vacation after term four.
We took a mini trip during the break, funnily enough to visit
Kandy Sheperd who blogged yesterday! It was so great to visit her and her lovely husband and to meet the cats and horses she often blogs about.
On the last day of our trip, we visited T
he Royal National Park in Sydney. Back in the 1870s, when this park was declared, I am sure it was in the middle of nowhere, but now it is surrounded by the southern suburbs of Sydney and on a public holiday, everyone was there taking advantage of having rugged coastal beaches and glorious bush right on their doorstep.
And the flowers were out. I wanted to share some of them with you....
This is a Waratah and it is also the state flower of New South Wales. My photography doesn't show off how big the flowers really are but they are about 4 inches across and a glorious maroon red. They last in a vase for about six weeks. I love them but it is a bit too cool for them to grow where I live.
This is pink heath. Although I took this photo in New South Wales, it is the state flower of my state, Victoria.
Sorry, I have no clue what this is but it's pretty, right ? ;-)
This is flower eucalpyt. Eucalyptus trees can flower in white, red or even orange, depending on the sub species.
I have exhausted my knowledge here but wanted to share them all with you.
So tell me, what is your favourite local flower? Or what is your state flower? I would love to know!
Fiona
Lowe is a RITA® and R*BY award-winning, multi-published author
with Harlequin and Carina Press. Whether her books are set in outback
Australia or in the mid-west of the USA, they feature small towns with big
hearts, and warm, likeable characters that make you fall in love. When she's
not writing stories, she's a weekend wife, mother of two 'ginger' teenage boys,
guardian of 80 rose bushes and often found collapsed on the couch with wine. Yyou can find her at her website, facebook, Twitter and Goodreads.