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ChaoticGardener @thechaoticgardener.bsky.social · Jul 29

Thank you. I will have a read!

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ChaoticGardener @thechaoticgardener.bsky.social · Jul 24

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ChaoticGardener @thechaoticgardener.bsky.social · Jul 12

Alternanthera brasiliana
Amaranthaceae

🌱 #BloomScrolling #RBGSydney #sydney #photography

A thicket of upright herbaceous red stems and purple leaves. Held above are a mass of small round while flowers

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ChaoticGardener @thechaoticgardener.bsky.social · Jul 11

Gay bananas

Musa velutina
Musaceae
🌱 #RBGSydney #sydney #banana #photography

A bunch of small thicc pink bananas remaining on a pink stem

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ChaoticGardener @thechaoticgardener.bsky.social · Jul 11

My goodness. Here's a chance for me to say thank you for your exposure of the truth. So many thanks!

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ChaoticGardener @thechaoticgardener.bsky.social · Jul 11

Cool plants are everywhere! Thanks for commenting on these beautiful things

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ChaoticGardener @thechaoticgardener.bsky.social · Jul 10

Good winter foraging

🌱 #BloomScrolling #bee #RBGSydney #sydney #macro #photography

A single flowering camelia with pink petals has a thick centre of yellow stamens and anthers. A bee is foraging through the yellow goodness

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ChaoticGardener @thechaoticgardener.bsky.social · Jul 9

🌱 #BloomScrolling

ChaoticGardener @thechaoticgardener.bsky.social · Jul 9

I didn't check their name labels but I think this is Aloe ferox. Next time I will have a look. The winter flowering aloes are spectacular at the moment

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ChaoticGardener @thechaoticgardener.bsky.social · Jul 9

They do indeed

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ChaoticGardener @thechaoticgardener.bsky.social · Jul 9

Putting in a shift down the aloe mines

🌱 #BloomScrolling #aloe #RBGSydney #sydney #photography

A myriad of candle like aloe inflorescences, yellow at the base transforming to red higher up. A lorikeet, showing its rainbow colours, is sipping nectar from a flower

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ChaoticGardener @thechaoticgardener.bsky.social · Jul 8

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#BloomScrolling

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ChaoticGardener @thechaoticgardener.bsky.social · Jul 8

Spelling, what's that about?
#bromeliad

ChaoticGardener @thechaoticgardener.bsky.social · Jul 8

#bromiliad
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#BloomScrolling #RBGSydney #sydney #photography

A bromeliad flower on a long upright stem with flower bracts attached alternatively. The individual flower bracts are a waxy yellow green becoming a gloriously rich, deep red as they join the stem

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ChaoticGardener @thechaoticgardener.bsky.social · Jul 8

So much better than doom scrolling

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ChaoticGardener @thechaoticgardener.bsky.social · Jul 7

🌱 #BloomScrolling

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ChaoticGardener @thechaoticgardener.bsky.social · Jul 7

so cute #pansy

🌱 #BloomScrolling #RBGSydney #sydney #photography #blue

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ChaoticGardener @thechaoticgardener.bsky.social · Jul 6

Yes, it is really fabulous and a lot of work for the gardener

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ChaoticGardener @thechaoticgardener.bsky.social · Jul 6

Yes, such a treat. Thank you for your kind words

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ChaoticGardener @thechaoticgardener.bsky.social · Jul 6

From the botanic gardens #camellia collection
🌱 #BloomScrolling #gardening #rbgsydney #sydney #photography

A cluster of pink, bell shaped, single camellias with prominent anthers are complemented by thick, dark green, serrated leaves.The background is out of focus, bright and colourful

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ChaoticGardener @thechaoticgardener.bsky.social · Jul 5

The #rose flowers at the botanic garden are hanging on into the winter and giving good colour and form like this decadent decay
🌱 #BloomScrolling #gardening #RBGSydney #sydney #photography

A greyish mauve full rose flower has started its decline into decomposition. Decadent decay

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ChaoticGardener @thechaoticgardener.bsky.social · Jul 5

I missed sipping tea in the quote. The quotes is even stronger:

'Whitefellas watching from a distance, sipping tea, while Anangu ran,'

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ChaoticGardener @thechaoticgardener.bsky.social · Jul 5

‘I painted this on a silver platter because that’s how they served it. Whitefellas watching from a distance while Anangu ran.’
#reparations #NuclearBan

Harriette Bryant
Pitjantjatjara , Southern Desert region
Wynne Prize 2025 finalist
Maralinga
synthetic polymer paint, PVC glue and inkjet on found silver platter
First-time Wynne Prize finalist Harriette Bryant transforms objects that carry connotations of colonial domesticity into powerful conduits for storytelling. Inspired by her elders’ stories and her own research , Bryant paints the history of nuclear testing at Maralinga, South Australia, between 1956 and 1963. She reminds us of the lingering after-effects of the bombs and the displacement still experienced by the survivors and their descendants.
‘I painted this on a silver platter,’ Bryant says, ‘because that’s how they served it. Whitefellas watching from a distance while Anangu ran.’ Under the gallery lights, this silver platter glimmers, in stark contrast to the black puyu or mist that is said to have moved across Country. Bryant’s commentary heavily implies that this is how the Australian Government served up country to the British: on a silver platter.

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ChaoticGardener @thechaoticgardener.bsky.social · Jul 5

The bomb comes down and makes a big mess. It melts the sand, shakes the earth, poisons the ground. They bury it but it is still there – in the dust, in the water, in our memory. The story goes on, that’s why I keep talking about it, so we can always remember
-Harriette Bryant
#WynnePrize #Maralinga

Maralinga. synthetic polymer paint, PVC glue and inkjet on found silver platter. The mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion, seen against a blue sky, emanates from ochre and black Country. The image is surrounded by the edges of a silver platter with handles

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ChaoticGardener @thechaoticgardener.bsky.social · Jul 5

The #camellia displays at the botanic gardens are in at their peak. Here is one of them, expect more!
🌱 #BloomScrolling #gardening #sydney #photography #RBGSydney

A pale pink single camellia flower is catching the light, forming light and shade on the petals. At the centre is a circular protrusion of stamen with prominent golden anthers

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