Our South Coast offers an amazing native garden, that probably only few people are aware of. Stephen Hopper described some recent discoveries about our flora at a recent Albany UWA lecture. One species described was Eucalyptus virginea, a tree up to 22 meters tall, found only in a small population at Mount Lindesay near Denmark, and only recognised as a distinct species in 2004 -
http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/nuytsia/article/425
On the way to finding this tree, with the keen eye of a local enthusiast, during a walk of perhaps some two hours, we saw seven species of flowering orchid, and another one with an unopened flower. Most were quite inconspicuous, and few people would be aware of this richness of our flora.
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| Little Pink Fairy orchid |
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| Helmet orchid |
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| Jug orchid |
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