Mat and I left home at 4am to meet Dick and his team while they were coming through on the Oxfam trailwalker 100k walk. The walk down in dark was fun, It was a foggy but remarkably warm winter morning, we heard bounding and crashing in the bush that must have been wallabies, also saw a possum or two and heard the soft beating of large wings in the trees above us that I reckon must have been owls.

These Lavender scallops run wild all through our garden. I’m indifferent to them, they can stay for now but I’ll have no qualms about pulling them up to make way for something else.

Since living near the bush I’ve taken it upon myself to try to learn to identify as much of the plant species in the area as I can. It’s proving to be a big job! But it always feels good to learn new things, I like going for a walk and knowing about at least some of what I’m looking at.

To help me remember new plants I’m going to create a page for each.