Matthew Henry Gardens Journals
Guling, the orchid season
This season speaks of the reawakening of the earth from the damp, cool winter. Nodding greenhood (Pterostylis spp.) and other early-flowering, terrestrial orchids characterise this
March is a season all its own
March is a season all its own according to the Kulin calendar. Iuk, the eel season. On top of this hill, I don’t see many
Wombats and orchids: winter and the pre-spring buzz
Once we have passed the shortest day of the year, it is quite usual for some plants, associated with spring in cooler parts of the
Autumn colour
The lurid pink flowers of a naked lady, Amaryllis belladonna, rises up from parched ground and bone dry grasses in an unmown corner of my
Evergreen
The dry weather since Christmas has created a pale landscape of washed out paddocks. The eye is naturally drawn to vestiges of green, coming often
High time for some changes
The Gordonia axillaris, or fried egg tree, has begun the new season with a new look High Summer has come along in fits and starts,
