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Grevillea moonlight


Grevillea moonlight (Grevillea)

These are special native shrubs/small trees and attract lots of birds, one of them the rainbow lorrekeet, which is truly a magnificent sight. The bird is blue, red, green, black, yellow and stands out from the flowers. It gets drunk when having too much nectar and hangs upside down and sometimes falls out of the tree! These all flower in winter for several months.



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lol, I would love to see that

3 Jul, 2008

 

Me too :-D

3 Jul, 2008

 

And you know that each of those closed tentacles opens like those few at the bottom. At the end are the stamens. Birds and bees just love them, also butterflies.

4 Jul, 2008

 

So much to learn from each other....SIGH!

4 Jul, 2008

 

That makes this site so wonderful. I love your dog!

4 Jul, 2008

 

I would love to grow this - sigh! I've seen the lorikeets at a local aviary, they are indeed beautiful! I envy your variety of birds over there!

4 Jul, 2008

 

That's so cool ! Thanks for the mental image....lol, that would be a sight to see !

4 Jul, 2008

 

My friend, who lived in the province of Quebec at that time, told me a story of watching the robins, drunk on wild cherry windfall...trying to fly into the trees and missing the branches....I have a lovebird whose colours are peachy pink to red face...green back with blue tail feathers...but he's not as colourful and the lorikeets..lol. must be lovely to see these birds in the natural habitat.

10 Jul, 2008

 

Hi Lori, these birds are beautiful. All colours of the rainbow of course and their coat is mainly green, the chest has the colours. They look lovely as a contrast against the creamy Grevillea's. I get all sorts of birds, and they make a lot of noise too. Thanks for your story about the robins there.

11 Jul, 2008

 

I few months back a posted pictures from an art show. Anyways the artist gets much inspiration from flora. This flower very much reminds me of this huge neon installation that he had set up outside his show. I 'll have to see if I can't find a photo.

22 Sep, 2008

 

This flower is amazing!

20 Dec, 2008

 

Never seen such an unusually beautiful plant before.

18 Jun, 2011



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