Mainly yellows

This post is mostly photos of the Daffodils and Wattles around our place.  So we start with a photo from the drive showing both daffodils and a wattle.
 I trust that readers of this blog don't need guidance on which is which!

The subject is mainly yellows so this shot has some white Snowflakes and maroon Hellebores as well as daffs.
 A daffodil close up.
 This patch copped the full force of the fire, and since than has had all sorts of construction traffic over it.  We are amazed that we have got any flowers here at all.
 A bi-coloured daffodil.
 Some jonquils.
These are on a bank just above the Creek.
 The next two do have some yellow - on the stamens if nowhere else!

We also have some yellow Polyanthus on the deck ....
 ...and some other colours.


I hope you are by now across the concept of "mainly".  Here is some pink Prunus blossom.  Our trees seem to be a little late: they probably blame this on being incinerated 18 months ago.
 Ditto for the wattles.  In fact I am astonished at how many have survived and are flowering, or getting ready to flower.  This is a 10m high Silver Wattle (Acacia dealbata).  We are always amused to read people getting excited about this in Pommie Gardening Magazines as a specimen tree.  We have thousands of them!
 A close up of the flowers and foliage.
 Acacia pravissima the Ovens wattle.  Purists get excited about this as it isn't local to this area.  Soon will be the way it spreads.  It isn't fire tolerant although a few seem to have survived.
 Acacia buxifolia: part of the direct seeding by Greening Australia.
 Acacia mearnsii is a bit later flowering but will be great when it does.
 Acacia rubida: we had a few of them, but they didn't survive the fire well.  Also yet to hit its straps.
 We used to have a lot of Hardenbergia violacea but they seemed to have died out before the fire.  I suspect they left seed which got scarified as it's popping up here and there.
Bird migration seems to be firing up.  That includes Flame Robins moving from the lower areas up towards the mountains.  A pair came through our yard today.  This is the male.

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