Many of us, especially those living in the city, don’t know or understand enough about our wonderful native flora. First Nation’s peoples have a long tradition of recognising and using native plants for medicine, tucker and ceremonies but, for those of us who can just about tell a grevillea from a bottlebrush, there’s a whole… Read more »
Winter, the coldest season of the year is here. Some of us can’t bear the mercury dropping below 20°C while the rest of us (including me) embrace winter with all the hot chocolates, cosy fires, snuggly blankets and warm winter fashion there is to have. One of the best parts about outback Queensland is the cool… Read more »
What do orchids look like? They are technically a perennial herb because they lack woody stems – instead most grow from a structure called a pseudobulb. You may already be familiar with them as popular plants with colourful and often fragrant flowers, used in floral arrangements and highly sought after by collectors. Where do they come… Read more »
Join Boobook Explore’s Wildflower Wonderland Day Tour to Gurulmundi and you’ll see flowering grevilleas, hakeas, boronias, wattles and bush peas. You might even find the threatened Gurulmundi Heath-myrtle, and if you’re particularly lucky you will find a Rose. Rose Aisthorpe is Boobook’s resident botanist and wildflower tour guide and has been identifying the plants of… Read more »
1. What do wildflowers look like? Wildflowers can be any native flowering plant, including trees, shrubs and herbage. They are usually associated with carpets of colour, such as those famous in Western Australia. Gum trees can turn snowy white and drip with nectar; bluebells create a blue blur along roadsides; wattles produce a golden blaze;… Read more »
Guests on one of Boobook Explore’s day tours have been treated to views of one of the Roma region’s most spectacular wildflowers – Sturt’s Desert Rose, known scientifically as Gossypium sturtianum. It was a surprise for many guests to see this plant which is more often spotted within drier and more remote regions of Australia. BOOBOOK’s… Read more »
