Recycle Charm

A recent visit to  a garden of a friend, bought to mind a old saying, one man's trash is another man's treasure. I did love my visit to this garden it just had so much charm, every where you looked there was something tucked away, nothing seemed to be waisted, even an old pair of boots were used as a planter pot...

Correa Candy Pink

I love the look of this beautiful Correa, I should call it coconut ice with it's pink and white colour. It has several different names depending where you buy it from, Candy Pink, Mallee Pink, Pink Pixie . I don't care what they call it I love it anyway..

For more information on Correa plants and great photo's, try this great web site    Just Correas

Correa Reflexa Green and Cream

Correa Reflexa Green and Cream, this correa comes from Tasmania, it flowers from autumn through to winter. It is a lovely shrub growing a 1m, with shiny foliage and cream coloured flowers that honeyeaters just love.

For more information on Correa plants and great photo's, try this great web site    Just Correas

Bulbs

Bulbs make great potted colour in winter to brighten up any garden, growing in these pots are mini daffodils, tulips and hyacinth. 

 

Correa

Correa reflexa is sometimes referred to as the Native Fuchsia.

This lovely little plant is one that self seeded in our back garden some time ago and was potted into a 6 inch pot until big enough to be transplanted back into the garden. It has a small slow growing growth habit, but was well worth the wait to see it flower.

For more information on Correa plants and great photo's,  try this great web site    Just Correas

Solenostemon scutellarioides

Solenostemon scutellarioides "Coleus Multi Coloured"  Is a winner in my garden with its large colourful leaves in various shapes and sizes. A tropical tender perennial that is grown as a popular foliage plant with an almost infinite number of leaf color combinations including most colors of the spectrum apart from a true blue. Coleus has no serious insect or disease problem, but watch for insects such as aphids, spider mites and whiteflies. I grown mine in pots but will do well in most containers, window boxes, hanging baskets and as edging plant. A proven winner for me....

Silverband Falls - Dairy Creek

Silverband Falls pre-floods

Many years ago while on a visit to the Grampians we visited the  popular and beautiful Silverband Fall on Dairy Creek. This unusual waterfall where  the water falls over the moss covered cliff face to disappear into the rocks at the base of the falls, only to re-emerged further downstream in the fern clad gully. Sadly on a return visit recently the falls and the little creek with tranquil fern-lined gully were no more. Nature builds beautiful areas like this one and nature can also destroys them.

 

 Sign showing Dairy Creek pre-flood

The picture on this sign at the creek crossing gives the visitor an idea of how beautiful the area along Dairy Creek with its lovely lush tree fern clad gully and meandering little creek once were. In January 2011 a very significant storm and flood event swept through this area and many other parts of the Grampians National Park causing catastrophic and wide spread damage.

Nature's fury sending a raging torrent of floodwater's, landslips and derbies such as giant boulder, rocks, towering eucalypts trees from the cliffs above destroying everything in its path and reshaping the little creek forever stripping it of all vegetation.

Silverband Falls walking track bridge washed metres down the creek bed

So much  derbies litter the once tranquil creek-bed

Trees uprooted and washed away

looking at walking track bridge from creek crossing

Will this area return to it's former state I think not, not in my lifetime, the demographic's of the landscape have changed, the little eco system evolved over hundreds in not thousands of years. What helped to create this once beautiful area has been totally washed away.

Debris can been seen for many metres down stream, the extensive erosion of the creek edges by the floodwater very evident in some photos.