The wildflowers

Evan stands in a vast expanse of Annual Yellowtops, on the sand dune at the back of the golf course.

And then the wildflowers came. Whilst fairly modest little flowers in their own right, they appear in such profusion they take your breath away. I have taken hundreds of photos over the last few weeks, every time we go out it seems there are more and more and its always exciting to discover a new one we haven't seen before.

Wild Stocks on top of the sand dune.


Another shot in the same area.


More Yellowtops and Wild Stocks on Pandie Pandie Station, south of Birdsville.


Yellowtops bloom amongst a long dead bush near Andrewilla.


A photo taken by Evan of a sea of tiny white Minnie Daisies.


And a photo taken by Cathy of Evan taking the above pic.


These are Poached Egg Daisies, for obvious reasons. This lot came up in our front garden by themselves.


Dwarf Swainsona. The wildflowers seem to come in yellow, white, and more rarely, purple/pink/mauve.


Except for this alien-looking one, Cunningham's Rattlepod.


Another weird one, I'm not sure it counts as a wildflower, but came up as a result of the rain so I've included it. I think it is a variety of Samphire, we saw it near Lake Machattie, north of Birdsville.


This one REALLY doesn't count, as it has been nurtured very carefully since it was a seed by Dusty and has pride of place in front of the Bakery.