Tropical Zone Gardening: Restless natives of the Top End, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
Dave, that week I also have to do a fauna survey - mixed blessing. The fauna survey is also a chopper job and takes 3 days/2 nights camping out. Since you set traps and check them later, there's a bit of spare time to explore. But no botanist for picking their brain. The flora survey is one day/two plots then back home. So I could fit in more days on the flora survey except they're running concurrently and it's only for one week. Oh well, I'm not paying for the chopper but being paid myself, how can I complain? And the camera, the only place I don't take it is in the shower.

Pepper/Braveheartsmom, it often a matter of seeing the little things, there are flowers of all sorts of shapes and sizes in lots of places. When out bushwalking I often get criticised for wasting time taking photos of what most people walk past without noticing. For me it's a big part of it, not just the big spectacular scenes. And I like to let people see what I see.

This is similar to one that I posted before, only a deeper blue and a smaller flower/plant. I believe it's a Gomphrena sp. Grow just about anywhere except in waterlogged places.

19 March 2009:

Just picked this up, it's a Spermacoce, they come in a lot of shades and sizes, mostly blue.

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This message was edited Mar 25, 2009 8:08 PM