DESKTOP 3307 - LICHEN

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DESKTOP 3293 - WINTER'S WEB

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DESKTOP 3201 - SPARROW IN SALVIAS

Sparrow sitting pretty in amongst red salvias. Salvia splendens, the scarlet sage or tropical sage, is a tender herbaceous perennial native to Brazil, growing at 2,000 to 3,000 m (6,600 to 9,800 ft) elevation where it is warm year-round and with high humidity. The wild form, rarely seen in cultivation, reaches 1.3 m (4.3 ft) tall. Smaller cultivars are very popular as bedding plants, seen in shopping malls and public gardens all over the world.

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DESKTOP 3032 - TWILIGHT

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DESKTOP 2911 - LICHEN

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DESKTOP 2900 - PURPLE SWAMPHEN

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DESKTOP 2897 - CUT

Cut a tree down, plant another two to replace it...

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DESKTOP 2855 - SPROUTING

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DESKTOP 2844 - PATIENT DOG

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DESKTOP 2834 - MOSSY

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DESKTOP 2578 - GREBE

The Australasian grebe (Tachybaptus novaehollandiae) is a small waterbird common on fresh water lakes and rivers in greater Australia, New Zealand and on nearby Pacific islands. At 25–27 cm (9.8–10.6 in) in length, it is one of the smallest members of the grebe family, along with the least grebe and little grebe.

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DESKTOP 2572 - POND

Winter at the Darebin Parklands in suburban Melbourne.

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DESKTOP 2526 - WEB

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DESKTOP 2478 - HEATH

A garden hybrid of the Australian heath - Epacris.

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DESKTOP 2442 - CENTAUREA

Centaurea gymnocarpa has striking leaves of a silver-grey colour that are beautiful to set against plants with dark green leaves. An added bonus are the purple flowers that resemble cornflowers.

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CAMELLIA

Camellia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae. They are found in eastern and southern Asia, from the Himalayas east to Japan and Indonesia. There are 100–250 described species, with some controversy over the exact number. The genus was named by Linnaeus after the Jesuit botanist Georg Joseph Kamel, who worked in the Philippines, though he never described a camellia.

 

This genus is famous throughout East Asia; camellias are known as cháhuā (茶花) in Chinese, "tea flower", an apt designation, as tsubaki (椿) in Japanese, as dongbaek-kkot (동백꽃) in Korean and as hoa trà or hoa chè in Vietnamese. Of economic importance in the Indian subcontinent and Asia, leaves of C. sinensis are processed to create the popular beverage, tea. The ornamental Camellia japonica, Camellia oleifera and Camellia sasanqua and their hybrids are represented in cultivation by a large number of cultivars.

 

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DESKTOP 2015 - EVENING

Evening falls on the return trip home...

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DESKTOP 1925 - DAISIES

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DESKTOP 1877 - CAPEWEED

Arctotheca calendula is a plant in the sunflower family commonly known as capeweed, plain treasureflower, cape dandelion, or cape marigold because it originates from the Cape Province in South Africa.cIt is also found in neighbouring KwaZulu-Natal. Arctotheca calendula is naturalised in California, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Australia, and New Zealand, and considered a noxious weed in some of those places.

Arctotheca calendula is a squat perennial or annual which grows in rosettes and sends out stolons and can spread across the ground quickly. The leaves are covered with white woolly hairs, especially on their undersides. The leaves are lobed or deeply toothed. Hairy stems bear daisy-like flowers with small yellow petals that sometimes have a green or purple tint surrounded by white or yellow ray petals extending further out from the flower centres.

It is cultivated as an attractive ornamental groundcover but has invasive potential when introduced to a new area. The plant can reproduce vegetatively or via seed. Seed-bearing plants are most likely to become weedy, taking hold most easily in bare or sparsely vegetated soil or disturbed areas.

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DESKTOP 1825 - GREENS

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