Stuart Williams

Landscape architect and horticultural consultant. Here to share plant knowledge in the form of original photos, observations and research.

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@linds_longcovid This is sad. Are you ok?

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@Bundogs Very eyecatching. Thanks for the tour, John!

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@John_Moore_1 My grandfather was building a house just as the war broke out

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Camellia japonica 'The Czar' in Dad's garden

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@John_Moore_1 Yes, the cultivar originated from a Melbourne garden and started to become popular here just before WW2

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@Bundogs That's a good question because they are known as scented sundews, but I have never detected a scent from them.

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Drosera aberrans
Mornington Peninsula

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Camellia cultivar in Dad's garden

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Zieria oreocea
Grampians zieria

Rutaceae

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Burrowa grevillea is endemic to the Burrowa-Pine Mountain National Park in Victoria

Greviilea burrowa

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Olearia homolepis, from Western Australia

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Wiry wattle
Acacia exstensa, from the south-west of Western Australia

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Lysiosepalum involucratum, from the south-west of Western Australia

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Flowers of yellow box
Eucalyptus melliodora

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This is the cultivar 'Red Rambler'

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Spreading grevillea
Grevillea humifusa from Eneabba in Western Australia

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Cobberas grevillea
Grevillea brevifolia

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Grampians grevillea
Grevillea confertifolia

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A cold, wet Saturday morning in Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, but beautiful as ever.