My Prosthechea cochleata is in bloom again 😍

Not bad for a phone pic! The Luna eclipse, so eery to see the earth shadow! Soo cool

Potted up my Anigozanthos gabrielae into some bigger pots! This little Kangaroo Paw is pretty much a miniature species found mostly found around the Stirling ranges and surrounding areas and a distant population in the cape arid NP! Excited to see the flowers!

Go to a garden show, surely I won’t buy any more plants right… just look right… mission failed 😂 but omg this Nepenthes truncata x veitchii is a unit!

The dots progress further! Getting close to be catching fungus gnats 😂

And so begins the very long wait for this first flowering Paph micranthum seedling to bloom! I was not expecting it to flower soo soon!

My Restrepia is always blooming for me 😍

Getting there!

Working more on the shading, bit by bit it’s coming together!

Really hard to get a good photo of this plant, but this is Utricularia gibba, a species of bladderwort that looks more like a green carnivorous hair ball than a plant tho 😂

My little Pterostylis curta tubers are waking up! Well at least one is but that is still exciting!

The dots continue!

These are just such cute flowers! Lomandra suaveolens is a widespread local species to Perth and the southwest, and due to this flowering strategy probably many would never notice them! This may eventually be host to Cassytha glabella but for now I can enjoy these blooms!

Another new one in my care been a while since I kept triggerplants! Stylidium caespitosum

Dots dots and more dots!

Also potted up my Phias australis!! They growing so vigorously atm!

The increase in suns added a patch of colour maybe the new traps will colour up! Here’s hoping 😍

Come dot along with me! I got a while to go 😅

Im going to be dreaming in dots!

Line work! My plant wasn’t growing the usual round leaves I wonder if it’s the artificial lights or the hybrid trait 🤔 but coming along nicely!

The transfer begins!

This is an odd bird… Spotted this large mud dauber wasp takin a drink from the bird bath!

Best flowering of my #Restrepia trichoglossa! Always in bloom 😍

I got new Cassytha seeds as my last lot may not be viable anymore. For the first attempt I have abraded the seed coat and soaked over night as that worked the last time! C. glabella on the Lomandra and C. racemosa on the Eutaxia! Will just have to hope they take to the hosts!

Got this at the native plant nursery! A weird one, Lomandra suaveolens!! These are a local species that hold their flowers way down in center of the plant, would hardly know it’s in bloom!!!

Pinguicula are such cute little plants and they make for nice illustration material!

Draft started on an illustration! I been soo off and on with trying to get back into my illustration work! Gotta try do a few hours here and there when I can so I can keep it up! Been wanting to illustrate my plant since I got it soo hopefully it ends up finished!! Probably gonna be pen work!

The new pitcher has opened and more new growth is on its way 😍

Slowly giving my Cephalotus more light getting early morning sun and it’s now starting to colour up more!! And new leaves coming through!

Always in bloom this restrepia, one minute it has a small break in flowering and next more flowers! I will need to repot it soon but for now it’s thriving!

This Maxillaria hematoglossa is always a reliable bloomer for me 😍 not the biggest orchid bloom but a cool one!

My pinguincula Weser x emarginata is in flower still and new ones coming out! Living fly paper and pretty flowers what more can you want from a carnivorous plant!

Got myself a “chillie” at a chillie nursery, while my partner got the hottest of the hot (Carolina reaper) I went the opposite end with Doux Des Landers, which sounds more like a glorified capsicum than a chillie which is my kind 😂😅🔥🌶️

sea Celery, #Apium prostratum growing by the sea as the name suggests!

Gotta love Australian #Lobelias! This one being L. anceps. This species grows in a wide variety of habitats across the southwest. This one right near the start of the beach!

Trying Cephalotus for the and don’t know how many times! 😅 I Won’t give up! Outside this time now that I can grow outdoors, and no tray method just regular flushing out with RO water and the occasional very dilute amount of orchid fert this time! A very green clone, I wonder if it will colour up 🤔

I believe this may be a #Salicornia species, two recorded from the area! S. blackiana and S. quinqueflora, though samphires are a nightmare to ID so yay…. 🥲😅

Another one I saw over the Break, growing at Contos beach amongst the Samphire #Orianthera campanulata! Named for its bell shaped, campanulate, flowers! Cute little summer flowers!

A lil Utricularia flower popping up in my Sarracenia pot 😍

Another odd one, I was not expecting in the sandy edge of the dunes! I’m thinking possibly #Triglochin striata but unsure based on photos 😅 either way a cool find!

Contos Beach was just amazing!!

On a visit to Contos Beach, I noticed these Exocarpos sparteus in fruit! A lil sweet! Good to see such a cool parasitic shrub in a very scenic area!

What’s better than Blue Banded Bees than finding sleeping Blue Banded Bees!! 😍 lip night walk to see some after dark critters a lot out and about

Little Froggo I think you are confused 😅 it’s midsummer not winter lol guy! Some sort of Crinia I think

Another common visitor the Melaleuca huegelii out the front! #Glycyphana stolata commonly called Brown Flower Beetles

This time of year is just the best! #Nuytsia floribunda in flower all around!!!

Found this #Castiarina amabilis Jewel Beetle feeding on a Melaleuca huegelii flowers in the garden 😍

Beeen a while since I got microscope out for drawing 😍

And that’s it the first flower has fully opened!! #Phragmipedium bessaea is such a unique orchid, gets watered regularly with RO water and grown under artificial lights!

Today’s a day for an illustration! A spent Queen of the night flower provided some inspo to draw!