Welcome to the Australian section
South West Australia is famous for its huge numbers of wild flower species including large numbers of endemics. If the rainfall is right in late Winter and Spring, which lasts roughly from August to November, the bush and desert can be carpeted in acres of blooms so spectacular that wild flower tourism has become a regular feature of the area. In this section there are the photographs from several visits mostly to Western Australia in 2007, 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2024. In 2015 some plants from Eastern Australia were photographed near Sydney in Eastern Australia plus some from Tasmania in 2007.
Western Australia, particularly south western Australia is a world famous botanical hot spot. There are about 12,000 known species but plants new to science are added to the Western Australian Herbarium's collection an database every year. The photograph below was taken on a Wild Flower Society of Western Australia week long excursion in 2007 into the Wheat Belt to see Spring flowers. The carpets of everlasting flowers below are Schoenia cassiniana (pink) and Waitzia acuminata (yellow) at the Talgomine reserve.
Currently 508 photos of plants found in Australia have been published. There are also a few photos of plants which also grow in the British Isles but these are often nuisance aliens in Australia. Many more alien species found in Australia come from South Africa or the Mediterranean countries.
The extensive indexing of the whole site is still available via the home page, but the Australian Text index and the Australian A to Z thumbnail index may be the most useful.
Use of photographs
The photos are all processed and compressed to 72 dots per inch for quick loading. They are really only suitable for web use or if you intend to reduce the size before printing. If you ask for permission to use a photograph the answer will invariably be yes. There are no charges but please ask first. In exchange for the use of photographs a link to ukwildflowers.com, a reference or some form of recognition would be appreciated.
Please do not try to create permanent links to photos. It might work for you but it eats my bandwidth. For people who need good quality prints I can send original photos in ones, twos or threes via email or some such way. Please do not ask for more than three or four high resolution images. I do not keep high resolution copies of the images I have processed, they have to be created all over again from the original photograph.