Large fruited Mallee flowers

Large fruited Mallee flowers and nuts

Family: Myrtaceae

Genus: Eucalyptus

Species: youngiana

Two weeks later and the bees are still enjoying the flowers 

 

Tiger moth

Found this half dead tiger moth in our workshop shed. 

 

Eucalyptus rhodantha

Beautiful Eucalyptus Rhodantha growing at the David Cruickshank Reserve in Dalkeith. 
 

Hawk moth caterpillar

 Larvae of Austrlian Sphingidae, a hawk moth caterpillar. In my garden on the sweet potato leaves. 

Bracket fungi a few weeks later

The same bracket fungi two weeks later
 

Native wasps three weeks later

 

It's a bit busier than three weeks ago and most of the holes are filled. 

 

Bracket fungi

Bright yellow shelf fungi at Point Resolution Reserve in Dalkeith on a grey autumn day

 

Australian paper wasps

 The nest is hanging right in front of the steps up to the veranda in the bougainvillea, high enough to not be in the way, so hope they will be happy up there and leave us be while working the garden! 

Purple water lilies

 Our pool-to-pond project in year two has been doing very well. If only we had time to finally put that stack of rescued wood to cover the glass fiber edging... 

Marigold

 Marigolds are doing very well this year in my garden. Or Afrikaantjes as we call them in Dutch.

Illyarrie, Red Capped Gum

 

Eucalyptus erythyrocory; Red Capped Gum
A mallee native in Western Australia.