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Sturt peas photos I said id look for @MarkD
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Taken in Port Augusta S.A ,…….. P.A. has arid lands botanic gardens Home - AALBG

Taken in 2005
PA is a 2 hour drive north of where I live, The arid gardens are run by Indigenous people who have great knowledge of many food types of plants.

See one of the flowers is mostly red ( missing the black centre of flower )

P.A is VERY …🥵🥵 hot ….its forecast for today and tomorrow is 45c ~ 113 F
 
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Taken in Port Augusta S.A ,…….. P.A. has arid lands botanic gardens Home - AALBG

Taken in 2005
PA is a 2 hour drive north of where I live, The arid gardens are run by Indigenous people who have great knowledge of many food types of plants.

See one of the flowers is mostly red ( missing the black centre of flower )

P.A is VERY …🥵🥵 hot ….its forecast for today and tomorrow is 45c ~ 113 F
Take care of yourself Kadee. 113 degrees is serious stuff.
 
Take care of yourself Kadee. 113 degrees is serious stuff.
Not quite that hot here @PeppermintPatty its forecast for 42 … 107 F here ….it’s still HOT 🥵 but not as bad as Port Augusta I mentioned…and that’s on water ,it’s on what’s called the Spencer gulf ….its sorta swampy …salty / crusty earth …. not open seas as such …so it gets extreme temps
its very isolated desert area / town …
 
Not quite that hot here @PeppermintPatty its forecast for 42 … 107 F here ….it’s still HOT 🥵 but not as bad as Port Augusta I mentioned…and that’s on water ,it’s on what’s called the Spencer gulf ….its sorta swampy …salty / crusty earth …. not open seas as such …so it gets extreme temps
its very isolated desert area / town …
Oh! Only 107! 😱 That’s still really hot. I hope you have air conditioning.
 
Oh! Only 107! 😱 That’s still really hot. I hope you have air conditioning.
Yes we do @PeppermintPatty we have a very efficient ducted evaporative air conditioning , and because we have “dry heat“ it works very well .
Evaporative air conditioning is useless in humid conditions, and we get an odd day or two of Humid weather, then we use the ( only ) fan option on the air conditioner

This for PORT AGUSTA ….i mentioned this morning…

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I have a plant that may finally be ready to bloom this year. Similar strap like foliage growing from the largest of corms but it is a Watsonia, specifically this one: Watsonia vanderspuyiae | PlantZAfrica

Here is a photo of the flower taken by a Flickr friend who gardens near Philadelphia. He can grow anything but I doubt this was his own plant. He travels widely to photograph gardens and plants.

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On the topic of kniphofias this one, K. multiflora is the most unusual one I've grown. A friend sent me a piece from his New Jersey garden part of which I was able to return to him later when he lost his original plant. Sadly we've bot lost them now. The tallest flower stalks I've seen on a Kniphofia.

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