Happy Australia Day!
Sturt’s Desert Pea is the state flower of South Australia. It is a ground cover which grows to cover wide areas of the desert in Central Australia after infrequent rainfalls. A small patch grew in the in the back yard at Mum’s, but I have not been able to grow them as I have lived in areas with a wide variety of sand and clay soils, but not the right one for these plants.
After a good rain in central Australian desert areas they cover wide areas of seemingly infertile soil with a carpet of pale leaves with bracts of stunning red and black flowers standing above the leaves.
Australia is a land of drought and flooding rain … with quite a few areas of the country living through a flooding period on this Australia Day.
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi!
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