Look what I found while moving rocks in my yard! 😍
"Oh, hello there!" I said after I squealed with joy.
When I was a child, I used to go hunting for newts, salamanders, snakes, turtles—you name it. It's been almost 20 years since I've seen one of these, and it was just as magical today as it was back then. 🥰
I placed it next to where I found it, where it crawled under a pile of loose soil and decaying leaf litter.
Beautiful pink form of Thelymitra alpina (Highland sun orchid) near Square Rock, Namadgi NP, ACT. Most plants at this location had the more typical blue flowers this year -this was the only pink form I saw on my last visit to the mountains.
"Die Forsythie ist beliebt und, zugegeben, wirklich schön anzusehen - aber die Kornelkirsche bringt zur mindestens gleichwertigen Optik auch noch innere Werte mit: Nektar und Pollen. Beides kann die sterile Forsythie nicht bieten und so ist sie für Insekten nutzlos und ein ziemlicher Reinfall für alle, denen Artenvielfalt und ein lebendiger Garten am Herzen liegen"