Canon 5D f11 1/60s ISO320 EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM

It is a debatable point but one of my observations is that most Western Australian flowers tend to be quite small even the huge Banksia flowers are not really a single flower but many hundreds rolled into one. Unlike many of the really well known large colouful splashy varieties that originate from places like China, roses, peonies and rhododendrons or central Asia, tulips daffodils and gladioli  or the hundreds that emanate from north central and south America. We have a few notable exceptions several wonderful native Hibiscus (Alyogyne huegelii) which yours truly can’t grow for toffee and then there are the Kangaroo paws, there are a few more but generally after that most people are scratching their heads… What we don’t have as splashy single flowers we make up for in the sheer number of varieties and the volume in which they come. South Western Australia in spring is a remarkable place.  The above is one of three varieties of fringe lilies that grow in the forests around my home – Thysanotus scaber