Old but not quite vintage

Hi everyone

Anyone know what exactly makes things vintage?

I have always taken them to be roughly over 30 years old???

Anyway, I would like to share with you something I started all-but 29 years ago

And I also finished it well within a year

Must have had some time up my sleeve back then  :-)

Don't know how - as hubby frequently was away for work and three babes under 13 months!!!

Oh, that's it - hubby was away   :-)

Anyway, back to what I want to show you

For anyone who is interested here are the meanings -

A = Australian Flag

B = Brolga

C = Cockatoo

D = Dusky Hopping Mouse

E = Echnida

F = Flannel Flower

G = Goanna

H = Honeyeater

I = Ibis

J = Jabiru

K = Koala

L = Lorikeet

M = Magpie

N = Numbat

O = Orchid (native)

P = Platypus

Q = Quokka

R = Rosella

S = Swan (Black native)

T = Tawny Frogmouth Owl

U = Urchin

V = Violet (native)

W = Wallaby

X = Xtraordinary Lizard (Frilled Neck)

Y = Yabby

Z = Zebra Finch

Bye for now

Australian Rainbow Flowers

Hi everyone

I have had a thought spinning around in my head for quite a few days now, and yes, my head has been hurting with all that spinning ☺☺☺

So for no particular reason, other than to stop spinning, I am going to create my ......

RAINBOW
of AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS 

here just for you

and more importantly for me

So that when I get around to having a garden again, I will be prepared with my flowers

BTW - All of these plants are ones I have grown in my many gardens from time to time, a lot of these I repeatedly have grown in each garden.

First off, please note that none of these photos are mine, I went trawling through Flickr to find them and will give credit where due

So now for the
RED

this would have to be our Bottlebrush

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sara_michael/2102858022/

ORANGE

An Orange Flowering Gum

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26217912@N06/4298805549

YELLOW

would be for Wattle

http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgiesharp/4967144910/

GREEN

 While its not seen as a "flower" this would definitely be in my garden, as long as I have a shady spot
Green is such a hard colour to find in flowers

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aus-blick/4838280278/

And when I checked my first thought, which was the Australian Native Orchid, I found the flowers were whitish too

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tgerus/4941518088/
 
BLUE

A really hard colour for me to find anything, so I chose an Iris

http://www.flickr.com/photos/53stude/2479746085/

 

INDIGO

This is a very hard colour for me to find something, so I ended up with these - Bracyscomes, which I might add still seem purple to me

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26073031@N06/4907083846/in/pool-aussieflowers

 

VIOLET

for our Native Violet, which is tiny and is used as a groundcover in shady, dampish spots

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pearlphotos/250121652/

Hope you enjoyed my day-dreaming as much as I have

100 years ......

HAPPY WATTLE DAY!!!

Above image is from favourite Australian Author - May Gibbs

Did you know that today is our National Wattle Day!!!

Well, I for one only found this out recently

1910

On the 1st September 1910, the first Wattle Day was celebrated in Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne and was significant as being the first organised demonstration on a definite day ever witnessed in Australia.

Australia's Native Flower

Emblem of Patriotism and Love

Let the wattle henceforth be a sacred charge to every Australian. Let us foster and protect and cherish it. Let us plant it in all our parks and reserves and pleasure grounds, so that we may make pilgrimages to its groves in blossom time. let us give our schoolchildren wattle plants, and offer annual prizes for the best grown trees, that there may be no Australian who cannot link it with his childish memories....

To the native born Australian the wattle stands for home, country, kindred, sunshine, and love - every instinct that the heart most deeply enshrines.

Sydney Morning Herald, September 1, 1910

The above information came from this site

Found this fantastic photo of a wattle tree through Google Images

And if you would like to see photos of wattle in bloom check out this post at Lady Helsie's Happenings. 
It is only one of a few she has on our beautiful native flora

She also has a great example of the wattle as her header

Wattle is also the inspiration for our sporting colours "Green & Gold"

What flower are you?

Funny enough, it seems that I am a daffodil

Who would have known

Oh yeah

Everyone that reads this blog ☺

Please click on the link on the right and lets know what you are