Wireless Hill Pictures

I’ve got almost a week to fill while in Perth as I wait for a service on my car before heading bush so today I headed up to Wireless Hill in Ardross. Nestled in the southern suburbs of Perth it covers 99 acres of bush land which was the site of a radio telegraphy station in 1912.

Now it’s a park mainly consisting of natural bush land and an amazing example of jut how diverse the native flora is in the area.

These tassel flowers are everywhere, a small herbaceous plant and according to my local wildflower book it’s not meant to be in flower at this time of year, but I have the photos to prove it.

 

This spider orchid needed two photos to show it from different angles as you couldn’t see the fringed sides in the first picture, I found perhaps three or four of these and I’m sure I would have found more if I didn’t get rained off by a big rain front. I have no idea what spider orchid it is my book has over 140 different species of spider orchids, a few looked similar but none seemed identical.

I felt sure this was a donkey orchid but after checking the book, the closest match is a pansy orchid, these were growing on mass in places.

 

A jug orchid, not very colourful but an unusual shape.

Yeah, no idea what this one is, it’s a small shrub and the flowers didn’t look like anything special from a distance, but once you get up really close, they’re quite interesting.

 

The red and green kangaroo paw is Western Australia’s floral emblem