OUR WORLD TUESDAY - Port Augusta Arid Lands Botanical Garden

Second instalment of my trip North.

Not too shabby looking at this during breakfast

at our cabin in the very corner of the caravan 

park with the best view and no passing traffic

nothing like being greeted by a prehistoric 

reptile, a sleepy lizard

when we hit the gardens 

the light was stark but the flowers prolific

I will be posting lots more for

TODAY'S FLOWERS

grasshoppers of every type were thick

as flees on a mangy dog,

banging into unsuspecting visitors 

from all sides

with the unusually good spring rains

Sturt Desert Peas were flowering in 

the entrance area

India Flint and her very appropriate sculpture

for this arid region

of found cattle bones

vegetation nearby

I have been visiting these gardens since

the time of their planting

it has been a long and arduous process

to establish all the seedlings

Roz Hawker from Queenland

with her sculpture of a 

primitive bush tent.

Things were very rudimentary in the early days.

Quandongs  or bush peaches, were ripe

in this perfect habitat for them.

There is not much flesh on them 

but what there is, is edible 

and was a good source of vitamins 

for the early settlers

if you enlarge, you will see the red berries

on the green tree in the middle

I wonder who stuck it to the end of this looong post?

I just have so very many photos to share.

Linking with 

OUR WORLD TUESDAY

and

Nature Notes