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Helen Robertson
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On Peerapper country - Zoologist, Fungi Enthusiast living with 2 Border Collies, 3 Jerseys & a Light Sussex flock! Bushwalking, gardening, sustainable living, mycology, photography.
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Sunflower and quinoa crops in and drying :)
The first few sunflower heads hanging on the shed clothes line to dry Almost all in...just a few late ones still maturing in the garden My quinoa crop drying out on the shed table... next step hand threshing then winnowing.
February 17, 2026 at 2:23 AM
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Yum yum yum.... blood plums!
A full basket of dark red, juicy blood plums Rows of vacola bottles stuffed full of summer goodness. Blood plums for the rest of the year!
February 11, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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Garden colours...
Zinneas in the renovated garden...a riot of colours. My view of Stanley's Nut in background. Colourful zinneas.
February 6, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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Today I walked from Lake Mackenzie to Parsons Track with a friend...to see the Richea scoparia. Such a variety of colours!
Two pink Richea spikes sticking up in the middle of a bunch of pale yellow ones. Spikey green foliage below...very spikey!! A hot pink Richea Lovely golden yellow Richea A darker golden yellow Richea
January 14, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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Some alpine magic for you...from the Vale of Belvoir, Tasmania.
Mountain rocket pink and white in front of a rich orange Richea The orange Richea up close Small alpine Goodenia montana with bright yellow flowers clustered in the centre of a rosette of leaves Purple Eyebright (Euphrasia collina) only this one is white lol....
January 12, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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Some late Christmas Bells up on Blandfordia Hill...flowering much later this year due to the heat anomaly over Antarctica which is giving us a perpetual winter here in Tasmania
Gorgeous red and yellow flowers and purple buds on a stem of Blandfordia punicea - Tasmanian Christmas Bells. Gorgeous red and yellow flowers and purple buds on a stem of Blandfordia punicea - Tasmanian Christmas Bells. Gorgeous red and yellow flowers and purple buds on a stem of Blandfordia punicea - Tasmanian Christmas Bells. This one was better with a few more flowers open :) Looking east from Blandfordia Hill... way in the distance is Table Cape, closer the hill behind Sister's Beach, then the rocks in Anniversary Bay with stunning whispy clouds over a silvery sea
December 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Very gently "death-wish chickie" is herded back to the others.... this chick has been in so many scrapes...yesterday evening I found it cheeping in the centre of the paddock when its siblings & mother were all tucked up in the nest for the night! It does not think Mum's instructions apply to it!!!
December 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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First berry breakfast bowl for the summer....even if it is just 5 degrees C!!!!
Quinoa covered in gorgeous red raspberries.... and a couple of blueberries!
December 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Some lovelies from the west coast heathland of Tasmania.....
First: Prasyphyllum pulchellum
Prasyphyllum pulchellum... the pretty leek orchid. Prasyphyllum pulchellum... the pretty leek orchid. Close up front of of Prasyphyllum pulchellum... Closer side view of Prasyphyllum pulchellum.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Yesterday's fabulous find made by friend on our walk in Rocky Cape National Park: Green Comb Spider Orchid (Caladenia dilatata)
Green petals with a central maroon stripe a deep maroon labellum tip and the green comb either side of the labellum. Front on shot Green petals with a central maroon stripe a deep maroon labellum tip and the green comb either side of the labellum. Side on shot Green petals with a central maroon stripe a deep maroon labellum tip and the green comb either side of the labellum. A bit closer...
November 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Peonies in the Paddock...NW Tas
Peony decoration in pale pinks and cream... A peony rainbow... A peony decorated wagon wheel A rather flowery looking Fergie tractor
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Went duck hunting today... got two ;)
Shiny red Large Duck Orchid. The petals and labellum of this species are shaped like a duck in flight. The Large Duch Orchid is not really all that big. Photographed here in front of my hand for size perspective
November 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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We found a different version of Caladenia transitoria yesterday in NW Tasmania... normally greenish yellow...we found a large colony containing both green-yellow ones and beautiful peachy pink ones!
A normal Caladenia transitoria with greenish yellow petals A pink Caladenia transitoria Pink Caladenia transitoria The two different coloured Caladenia transitoria on either side of a flat grey rock. Pink on the kept, greenish yellow on the right
November 15, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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More lovely orchids from NW Tasmania
A white Caladenia carnea - a small ground orchid. A pale pink Caladenia vulgaris A normal pink coloured Caladenia carnea or Pink Fingers Close up shot of a lovely blue Thelymitra aristata
November 15, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Rocky Cape National Park - Postman's Track was a lovely walk yesterday.
A beautiful red rosette of a pretty little sundew sending up a slender flower spike. White flowers of Bauera rubioides with heavy dew drops. Heading down to the shore you go past steep rocky cliffs Our lunch spot - a pretty rocky cove. The best thing was the musical noise of the pebbles shifting as each wave retreated!
November 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Arthur Pieman Conservation Area was an orchid wonderland last weekend!
The greeny yellow Caladenia transitoria The very tiny pink Caladenia pusilla Hard to see easily as it is only half open red and white Burnettia cuneata which comes after fire. Always cheerful mauve Glossodia major
November 6, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Arthur Pieman Conservation Area lovelies from today's outing. A very windy day!
Lovely spider orchid. Cream petals with long slender tips and a rich red labellum Two gorgeous bright yellow donkey orchids A very early leek orchid green with red-brown along the outside of the petals A really small little pink fingers....pale pink petals with a darker blush on tge tips.
October 20, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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This is Tasmania in mid spring lol...yesterday at Cradle Mountain
October 12, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Something erratic from the west of Tasmania :)
My grandsons pretending to hold up an interesting perched erratic. A boulder left on top of another larger one by the glacier that made them both... A close up look at the conglomerate all the erratics were made of. Generally reddish background rock with many lumps of red, white and grey quartz within. This towering erratic had meter wide scrape marks from the glacier that left it here. It was twisted and scoured by the ice. An extraordinary shape that looked like it should fall over. A plaque explaining how the erratic are formed
October 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Some nice fungi finds from yesterday's forest scramble in the Dip River Forest Reserve.
Gorgeous delicate white bells hanging in the green moss... Chromocyphella muscicola Pseudomerulius curtisii has a whitish upper surface but underneath these lovely orange wrinkled gills. Dark bottle green glossy bunched cups of Claussenomyces australis growing on a fallen stick. Glorious red-orange gills of the pretty fan fungus Anthracophyllum archeri - always a good find!
September 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Last season I saved seeds from my 'green dragon' broccoli and my red cabbages.
This year I have a few green dragon broccoli, a couple of red cabbages and lots of cabboli... or should that be broccages?
The chunky, pink veined, cabbage/broccoli cross. Prolific bearer and very yummy! One of the baby red cabbages...looking like it should! The green dragon broccoli plant looking as it should. Slender side shoots of broccoli.
September 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Imagine having a Productivity Summit with the theme of Resilence and failing to address first up the impact on Australian life, community, landscape and infrastructure of existential twin crises of global heating and biodiversity collapse. Instead it’ll be Env is a handbrake on ‘jobs and growth’.
August 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Waterfall wetness....
Second cascade at Liffey Falls...ferns in foreground Water cascading over rocks First cascade at Liffey Falls... a bit obstructed by overhanging trees... Second cascade at Liffey Falls...looking like it's falling down a set of stairs
August 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Lazy rainy afternoon... sitting with a pot of French Earl Grey tea... perfect to settle in the 11 barrow loads of mulch I spread around the garden earlier today!
August 12, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Road trip to Waratah and surrounds...
The town of Waratah and in front the waterfall cascades down the rockface. A closer view of the waterfall - lots of noise needs to be imagined! A Pademelon with YAH on our way down to the waterfall. Fungi part of this pale green rock lichen fruiting in pretty pink discs
August 8, 2025 at 6:55 AM