Archive for the 'Adelaide Hills' Category

Over recent days I’ve shared some photos of flowering Australian plants. These photos were all taken in the native garden of friends of ours who live near Adelaide in the Mt Lofty Ranges. They enjoy collecting and planting native Australian plants as do we. Many of the plants found in Australia are very colourful, as [...]

Yesterday I shared with you some photos of beautiful Australian plants. These photos were taken in a friend’s garden in the Adelaide Hills. Like us, our friends enjoy looking at and growing plants found here in Australia. From this small selection you can see that our plants have very attractive flowers. To view enlarged images [...]

Last year we went to visit friends of ours in the Adelaide Hills. Like us, they are keen growers of Australian native plants. We had a lovely lunch with them before heading out into the garden to look at their collection of plants. While my wife collected cuttings (so she could propagate them) I was [...]

On a visit to the Wittunga Botanic Gardens in the Adelaide Hills last year I managed to get some lovely photos of the various plants which were flowering at the time. This was early spring last year and many of the plants were already in full bloom. On the downside, I didn’t see many birds. [...]

Wittunga Botanic Garden is one of several gardens that make up the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. It was first established as a private garden but has been open to the public for some time now. The plant collection has a mixture of both Australian native plants and exotic plants from many countries. The gardens are well [...]