Wild Flower Watch VII

I managed to get across to the Queenstown Cemetery to resume my wild-flower watch this week.

I was expecting changes in the flowering species; in the past a week has made a big difference, this time it was a fortnight.

The cemetery seems to often greet me with something new just inside the entrance and this week was no exception.
I am pretty sure this is Trailing Speedwell  (Veronica plebeia)

And from another angle.

This tiny fellow was on one flower, bear in mind that the flowers are about 12mm (1/2 inch) across

What do you think a cricket? A grasshopper?

There was a whole area of these the common name is “Tall Bluebell” (Wahlenbergia stricta) I am glad I got there this week, most of them were already wilting.

And another one.

There were also scattered Sprawling Bluebells (Wahlenbergia gracilis)
Which I have posted before


Common riceflowers

Trigger Plants,

And more

One of the flax lilies

And from another angle

These milkmaids (another lily) were happily holding their faces up to the sun.

Little treasures (Wild Flower Watch V)

Once again the Queenstown Cemetery has out done itself.

Once again Al has to confess ignorance of Oz botany!

I saw this tiny star like flower as soon as I went into the cemetery.

 

Absolutely no idea what it is, but it is very sweet. Here it is at another angle

 

These have just been buds until today,
 
I had guessed they are not a native and I was right. They are Yellow Ixia, and as pretty as they are they are essentially a weed in the Oz bush.

I guess this blue delight is a Wahlenbergia species known as Australian bluebells but I could easily be wrong as it doesn’t look quite right.

I haven’t seen this pea before; unlike most of the others in the cemetery it is a creeping vine rather than a little shrub. I think it is Creeping Bossiaea (Bossiaea prostrate)

 

The tiny shrub peas are beginning to wither away

 

No idea what this is, but I guess it might be one of the “heaths”. They are minute, the petals about the size of a rice grain.

 

Another mystery. 

Unfortunately I didn’t notice the blade of grass across the frame until it came to processing the piccies at home

A trigger plant. I think this one has “fired”

 

This odd spear looked like budding flowers,

 

But in extreme close up I think this is actually a head of absolutely minute flowerettes

This Wahlenbergia  (if that is what it is) refused to be overshadowed by a weed!

 

But the treat of the day was definitely an orchid, or should I say number of orchids

 

They are Spotted Sun Orchids (Thelymitra merranae)

I went nuts shooting maybe fifty frames of various specimens poking up through the grass.

This one is just unfurling

 

Close ups

 

And super close ups

 

A spray of several in a group.

 

And this is my favourite of the day.

 

Wild Flower Watch (Lite)

A wet weekend again.

I managed to slip out between showers this afternoon and spent an hour shooting.

Unfortunately I have had interruption after interruption this evening and have run out of time to put together a post.

So rather than disappoint entirely here is a teaser. I will try to get a post together about the changes in the past week on Tuesday.

This is a "Twining Fringe Lily" (Thysanotus patersonii)
Like many of the flowers in the cemetery they are minute, around 6mm (1/4 inch) across.