13-APR-2016
Birds' favourites
Looking back towards our house from the horseyard fence & top side (SW) of the rose garden
where you can see the golden elm, cordyline, cedar and eucalyptus trees. You can
see why we have such an active bird population around our place, I often find a nest
in a rosebush.
03-APR-2016
Golden Elm in early autumn
A beautiful shady tree, so cooling for taking a spell under when outside working
in the garden. It is a backdrop for the rose garden, and a welcoming sight to
see from the gazebo. This year we had to deal with a grub that suddenly attacked
90% of the leaves, but Dick managed to wipe out the grub infestation by encircling
each branch with sticky tape so when the grubs came down out of the tree to
possibly multiply they encountered the tape and got stuck there until they died. The tree
has now made a recovery.
19-MAR-2016
Firewheel Tree
Stenocarpus sinuatus.. the Queensland Firewheel (or Wheel of Fire) Tree apparently also grows in California
but mine grows on the edge of the rose garden, close to a huge trellis that is covered
in the single rose Laevigata or Cherokee. This tree is quite slow growing and because
of the closeness of the trellis has a clematis attaching itself through the top of the tree
giving some colour before the tree does its thing with these red strange looking whorls.
This tree is related to the popular macadamia.
15-MAR-2016
Ginkgo biloba leaves
A close up for the first turning leaves at the start of autumn here
in southern Australia. Hopefully the tree will retain the leaves
until May when a whole tree in colour is a breathtaking sight to see.
10-DEC-2006
Linden Tree
Showing some signs of the effects of this year's drought, we haven't had rain since
September, and we've just had 2 days over 40-C In the background you can see a
melaleuca hedge in full bloom.
Flowering Plum Tree
Prunus x blireiana, the purple leafed plum with single pink flowers which flowers late
August. It turned out to be a bad choice for us, our aspect is too windy and the wind
damages the fragile blossoms so they don't last very long. I managed to capture a few
pictures of the blossom this year (2004).
Our dam & horse paddocks
We have a stock dam between two horse paddocks where rainfall can be saved and used. Around the dam Dick has fenced off an area where he is regenerating scrub and keeping the animals away to give the new planting a chance to grow. A couple of original ancient trees were already in residence in this area. Our dam is within a chain of 8 dams - ours is the 2nd in line going gradually down to an area the locals call "scrubby gully" There's a few shots taken of our mini arboretum taken in June 2007.
Ginkgo biloba
The Maidenhair Fern Tree aka Duck's Foot Tree....
Trees & plantlife on our Road Verge.
A variety of eucalyptus, some self-sown, others planted by the locals.
June 20, 2004
Flowering cherry in winter
Prunus serrulata 'Mt. Fuji'
last few leaves still in tact in a sheltered section of the tree.
June 05 - 2004
Horse-paddocks in morning sunlight
self-sown gums (eucalypts) in one of our horse paddocks
on a cool winter's morn.
Taken with my point & shoot camera, which is better for close ups than scenery pictures.
May 30 - 2004
Colony of self-sown trees
E. leucoxylon
growing in horse holding paddock
alongside my country rose garden
August 17 - 2004
Our arboretum
What we term as "our arboretum." The area covers part of a
horse holding paddock and shields the view from the road of
our horse shelters. All of this sample of trees are native
but not necessarily indigenous to our area. Left side of
picture is a Tasmanian Blue Gum E. globulus - a huge forest giant.
Our trees in this patch are a little over 20 years of age.
Photo taken from roadway, some self-sown street trees are in
the foreground.
June 08 - 2004
Ancient eucalyptus leucoxylon
limbs fall off when the temperature drops dramatically
home to many birds possums and the occasional koala
12-MAY-2005
Firewheel tree - old pods
03-OCT-2005
Judas Tree
Growing in a garden
in Strathalbyn, South Australia.
June 09 - 2004
Golden Elm - last autumn leaves
Ulmus
A wonderful shady spot for me to take a break under
when attending to the 500 roses that the elm abuts.
June 08 - 2004
Ancient eucalyptus leucoxylon
June 02 - 2004
Gum Blossom - pink
Loved by nectar seeking birdlife
June 09 - 2004
Golden Elm - last autumn leaves
Ulmus
The last to lose leaves and the last to come back into leaf in spring
June 20, 2004
Flowering cherry in winter
Prunus serrulata 'Mt. Fuji'
the last few leaves still in tact in winter
I took the photo in light rain
June 2004
Golden Elm - last leaves in winter
The last we'll see of the leaves
on the elm until late September
June 14 - 2004
Pandora vine gumtree bark
December 4, 2004
Linden
We love the beautiful shade cast by this tree.
June 14 - 2004
Gumtree bark
This one I can view from my computer room window
self-sown seedling E. leucoxylon
multi-stemmed because it got mowed in its early days
11-JUN-2005
Eucalyptus citriodora, bark after rain.
August 17 - 2004
Street tree
Photo taken from the road, this tree is on the road verge
and overlooks the corner of our property and across to
our neighbors & beyond.
August 6 - 2004
Ants on tree trunk
I could see them, but the camera didn't catch them, they were too small & moved too fast.
After watching them for a while, I realized they were very interested
in that break in the bark near the bottom left hand corner. They are
most probably farming a colony of termites.
12-MAY-2005
Our young mulberry tree in autumn
June 08 - 2004
Liquidamber - last few autumn leaves for 04.
June 11 - 2004
Tree in horse paddock
This gum tree has a spectacular position in the paddock
up on a rise...there is a small colony of saplings growing around the base of the parent tree.
May 30 - 2004
Colony of self-sown trees
E. leucoxylon
growing in horse holding paddock
alongside my country rose garden
May 30 - 2004
Colony of self-sown trees
E. leucoxylon
growing in horse holding paddock
alongside my country rose garden
June 02 - 2004
Cordyline australis in fog
May 30 - 2004
Colony of self-sown trees
E. leucoxylon
growing in horse holding paddock
alongside my country rose garden
June 05 - 2004
Silver Birch - last few autumn leaves
Betula alba
We're planning replacing them with crab-apples
June 18 - 2004
Hakea petiolaris
Pin cushion tree
seed nuts cling to trunk and boughs of tree.
pin cushion flowers are pale mauve flowering in autumn
12-MAY-2005
Firewheel tree - flowering in autumn.