AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS

We spent 24 days travelling through the Czech Republic and Austria. This set is Vienna, Austria. Photos are tagged as to which day.

Day 12 – We started off by going to Schönbrunn Palace. This was our second time here and I can’t express enough how great it is. Schönbrunn Palace and gardens is a former Habsburg imperial summer residence in Vienna. The grounds contain the palace, Gloriette, Palmenhaus, Dessert house, mazes, Roman ruins, English and French gardens, a carrage house (that contains many royal carrages), Egyptian Obelisk , an orangery and Tiergarten Schönbrunn (literally, Schönbrunn Zoo), the oldest zoo in the world. One of the most impressive sites I’ve been to. To really enjoy the entire site, you must take two days.

The Desert Experience House
"Emperor Franz Joseph I commissioned a hothouse based on designs by the architect Alfons Custodis for the overwintering of his extensive and extremely valuable "New Dutch" botanical collection, mainly containing specimens from Australia and South Africa.

Completed in 1904 in fin-de-siècle style with an ironwork frame that already displays art nouveau forms, the building has a masonry wall on its north side and a single-glazed south front, and was thus perfectly designed to protect tender plants needing special growing conditions from the harsh Central European winters.

Just under a century later thorough renovation of the building became necessary. The Federal Parks and Gardens Authority decided that it should be adapted to display the most beautiful and valuable specimens from the collection of succulents (cactuses and other water-storing drought-resistant plants). In order to make the exhibition as interesting as possible Schönbrunn Zoo has collaborated in creating three different arid habitats (Madagascar, and deserts of the Old and New Worlds) with a selection of their native plants and animals. The exhibition additionally shows the fascinating and multifarious survival strategies of the creatures that populate these harsh habitats, both above and below ground."

Posted by Tjflex2 on 2010-12-03 19:45:58

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Portrait of an Australian Reed Warbler captured a few days ago at Morpeth Common (Morpeth, NSW; Australia).
These little birds have a call much prettier than their plain looks suggest!
Hope you like this!
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Posted by archie0 on 2016-01-21 03:07:36

Tagged: , bird , reeds , Australia

Botanic Gardens, Melbourne

This popular and easily grown species from Bolivia has been classified under 6 different genus names and with 2 specific epithets! When finally included in Cleistocactus the combination C. aureispinus was found to be preoccupied, so it was renamed C. winteri.

Posted by Tony Rodd on 2010-12-26 06:22:41

Tagged: , Cleistocactus , Cleistocactus winteri , Winterocereus aureispinus , Winteria aureispina , Borzicactus aureispinus , Hildewintera aureispina , Loxanthocereus aureispinus , Cactaceae , cacti , cactuses , succulent plants , Botanic Gardens , Melbourne , Victoria , Australia

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Blue sky, cloud, some waves, and a few heavy chilly breeze. It all add together to say much about the wonders and beauty of God’s amazing creation.

Posted by Anne and Ray on 2016-09-03 12:59:56

Tagged: , sky , outdoor , coast , beach , cloud , Palm Beach , New South Wales , Australia , AU