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The Purple Flag, Patersonia occidentalis, is an Australian native iris.

Quite beautiful when it blooms. This one from my garden.

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The three-petalled flower of Patersonia occidentalis, also known as Purple Flag. An Australian native plant with bright purple flowers with golden stamens. The flowers bloom on the end of a long stalk with multiple blooms opening and dying off over time.
November 3, 2026 at 7:26 AM
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The Kunzea ambigua has enjoyed the recent rain, bursting into white flower.

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Kunzea ambigua in flower. This is a prostrate form with white pom-pom-like flowers spreading across the green foliage.
October 26, 2026 at 8:57 AM
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Old-fashioned bush roses work beautifully together in the garden.

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The green foliage and flowers of 3 roses: Rosa Crépuscule, ‘Wedding bells’ and ‘Golden wings’.
October 22, 2026 at 3:10 AM
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Another bright morning with a new rose flower sharing it’s beauty with the world.

This one is Rosa gallica ‘Complicata’.

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The bubblegum pink of a singkecRosa gallica ‘Complicata’ flower. The centre of the flower is pale with bright yellow stamens. It ‘pops’ against its glossy green leaves.
October 22, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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Another beauty from my morning walk, the flowering pods of a Eucalyptus causing excitement amongst its pollinators.

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The pods of a Eucalyptus have opened with their rose coloured stamens hanging down leisurely for their bewinged pollinators.
October 20, 2026 at 7:43 AM
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The delicate, tiny flowers of Kunzea ambigua spread their stamens in welcome to pollinating insects.

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The delicate white stamens of Kunzea ambigua spread out like a star-burst from their buds, surrounded green foliage and flower buds waiting to open.
October 19, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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Spotted a very happy Pultanea villosa, commonly known as egg-and-bacon plant, enjoying the sunshine on my morning walk.

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The sprawling habit of Pultanea villosa, commonly known as egg-and-bacon plant for the colour of its flowers.
October 20, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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It’s always a delight when the first buds of Rosa ‘Cecile Brunner’ start to open.

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The exquisite pink rose bud of Rosa ‘Cecile Brunner’ about to bloom.
October 17, 2026 at 6:27 AM
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The intense violet of a Hardenbergia’s flowers are hard to let pass at this time of year.

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The violet flowers of a Hardenbergia pop against its dark green foliage and the garden bed behind.
October 17, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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The delicate lilac flowers of Westringea eremicola are a delight at this time of year.

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The delicate lilac flowers of Westringea eremicola are stunning against their dark green foliage. Their landing pad for bees and other insects is a lighter shade of lilac with red spots.
October 17, 2026 at 3:02 AM
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Rosa ‘Crépuscule' has such delicate blooms. They are a wonder.

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The first apricot coloured blooms of a Rosa 'Crépuscule' adorn the metal supports and contrast beautifully with the glossy green foliage.
October 16, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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Australia has some stunning native plants like this Pultenea daphnoides in my garden.

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The bright yellow pea flowers, with dark red central markings, cluster along the branches of Pultenaea daphnoides — quite striking against its dark green leaves.
October 12, 2026 at 3:07 AM
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I turn and see the delicate flowers of Dianella tasmanica coming into bloom.

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The pretty gold and lilac flowers of a Dianella Tasmanica bloom on long tree-like stems against a backdrop of strappy green and brown leaves.
October 10, 2026 at 4:22 AM
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These Rosa mutabilis flowers will soon change their colour to a delicate pink and yellow hue.

I think it’s a remarkable plant.

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Two pretty pink flowers of Rosa mutabilis. In a few days they will have changed colour from this punchy pink to a delicate pale pink and yellow hue.
October 3, 2026 at 7:06 AM
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I love the spring plummage that garland the branches and trunk of the Cersis canadenis (Eastern Redbud) in our back garden.

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Delicate, bright pink flowers standout like a neon sign against the rough bark of the trunk. And bees love it.
October 2, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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The French lavender is delighting in the fine spring weather. #Firstflowers #spring #joy #canberra
This photo’s focus is the trailing flower spikes and sage foliage of French lavender on the southern side of a garage.
October 1, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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The Hibiscus is beginning to bloom. 🌺❤️

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July 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Here are the first garden flowers of the year- 1st snowdrops from yesterday; 1st couple of Drabas also opened + I saw first crocus this morning, no photo yet. In the wild just poplars and willows so far. 🌱📷
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Snowdrops. A close view of a cluster of grey green slightly fleshy narrow grassy leaves emerge from between stones- generally smooth glacial till of variously coloured weathered quartzite and granite, a larger dully pinkish quartzite at the back. With a couple of open flowers, one partly upturned, uncharacteristically, so we see inside the drooping white sepals (?) to the green rimmed bell inside. More buds on the way.
April 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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#FirstFlowers this year: Aspens Populus tremuloides starting to fully open their catkins (willows just behind, a few open). They are tiny, but there're millions! Officially wind pollinated, but they do draw insects.
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Looking up through/at the tops of a handful of aspens and several spruce trees. The aspen trunks are near white with some to many dark to black branch scar markings.There are some dead branches holding on, and live branches are mostly high up. the trunks are partly in their own or other trees' shade, and partly catching the afternoon sun coming from the left. The spruce trees are showing medium/dark green, with parts darker in shade. The tips of the aspen twigs bear numerous fuzzy catkins, mostly not fully extended, but catching the sun in their silvery hairs giving the tree tops a delicately fuzzy/hazy look. The sky behind the trees is a clear blue. A tangle of palest green twigs and branches with dark markings against a blue sky. From twig tips hang clusters of aspen catkins. Emerging from shiny brown bud cases, they start as silver brushes, extending to silver/pewter dangling caterpillars with red buds showing through the hairs, then extending further and paling as the reddish tiny buds open to show miniscule golden flowers casting their pollen to wind. Those hanging in front in this view are fully extended and wind blown slightly sideways. A cluster of catkins against a pale and grey blurred background of twigs and trunks hangs from a knobby pale dark marked twig. Emerging from shiny brown bud cases, they start as silver brushes, extending to silver/pewter dangling caterpillars with red buds showing through the hairs, then extending further and paling as the reddish tiny buds open to show miniscule golden flowers casting their pollen to wind. These are half to not quite fully extended. Sunshine lights several clusters of dangling catkins cross the screen at an angle from upper left to lower right, above a knobby pale dark marked thin branch, with a tangle of of other pale blurred branches and trunks in the background, blue sky showing through. Emerging from shiny brown bud cases, they start as silver brushes, extending to silver/pewter dangling caterpillars with red buds showing throught the hairs, then extending further and paling as the reddish tiny buds open to show miniscule golden flowers casting their pollen to wind.
April 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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The first crocuses peeked up out of the melting snow today.

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crocus flowers growing out of the ground near a patch of snow
March 27, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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Happy Crocus!
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February 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Crocus have bloomed!
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February 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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#springishere #firstflowers in my garden. #woot @ Vanier North,…

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November 23, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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I watched for the first #Daphne blooms this spring--but I fear the plant has retired---they do that!! A bush has a lifespan--but sometimes it leaves a shoot to regenerate into a new bush---how I hope!! The scent of these is divine!!!!
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April 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM