There is a lovey purple native fringed lily. It grows wild round here ~ or @ least it used too...When I was choosing plants for my native garden my main criteria were 1. plants from the local area, 2. preferably blue or purple flowers.
Wow! It's a stunner!There is a lovey purple native fringed lily. It grows wild round here ~ or @ least it used too...
https://www.mrfothergills.com.au/fringed-lily-wildflower.html
Yep. Fragile though. As we lose the eco system it's disappearing.
And I meant to add I am super impressed you recognised Campines when you saw them ~ let alone that they were mine!
I missed this earlier - I am so sorry she is feeling unwell - I know how it feels to be worried about your chicken. I hope you figure it out and she gets better.When they shall say, “There is peace and quiet”, then suddenly destruction shall arise upon them...
I am starting to think there is no such thing as a settled flock.
Just as I think everything is pottering along nicely something happens & my insides plummet like a hooked fish & my mind immediately starts calculating when's the earliest I can get to a vet.
Suyin has not been right for a long time ~ more than a year. The vet says otherwise but I'm pretty sure the vet is wrong in this case. It's just neither of us knows exactly what's wrong.
She is super light. Her keelbone feels like a knife. She's a great forager but hardly touches the commercial feed. She's always @ the water station. She's mean & ornery but she's my hen & I do the best I can by her. So when she suddenly keeled over & flapped wildly on the ground, unable to regain her balance I freaked out. She finally scrambled to her feet & it was as if the tumble had never happened. She looked & acted fine but fine she is not. There is some funny neck twisting & she is losing her balance still.
I had her in the carrier inside last night but this morning she is in the little pen, feisty as ever. She is a fighter, this one. Another hen would've been dead ages ago but not Suyin. She just doesn't give in.
So she's not a young hen. She's over 2 so although my frantic reading suggested even an immunised older bird can get Mereks if their immune system is low I really don't think it is that. I suspect some sort of infection that is affecting her middle ear but there's nothing I can do until I can get her to the vet & that's a week away ~ by which time she's likely to be fine again.
She's getting extra nutrients in her water, extra protein in her feed & will stay isolated to prevent her being trampled by my big busty ladies. She doesn't appear to be in pain. Her head & tail are up. Her eyes are bright & alert so I am hopeful.
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Oooh, that's lovely.There is a lovey purple native fringed lily. It grows wild round here ~ or @ least it used too...
https://www.mrfothergills.com.au/fringed-lily-wildflower.html
Just for you RibhWhere I grew up in Sydney the flannel flowers & christmas bells grew wild. People destroyed their habitat & they never came back.
And paper daisies!Just for you Ribh
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I've managed to keep this one alive for a couple of years now (touch wood). I must have planted it in the right place.
I'm hoping it will set seed in the rest of the garden.
Oh, and look! Cicada shells!
I've been told flannel flowers are hard to grow. What do you say? Not that I think they'll grow up here. 
