May 8 - 14, 2022: Issue 537
Mother's Day 2022: A Celebration Of Pittwater's Mother Nature
This Hardenbergia violacea, photographed in Warriewood by Joe Mills, is a species of Australian flowering Native plant, known in Australia by the common names false sarsaparilla, purple coral pea, happy wanderer, native lilac and waraburra which comes from the Kattang language; Worimi, or Gadjang, also spelt Kattang, Kutthung, Gadhang, Gadang, Gathang.This beautiful plant grows as a climbing vine, but also as a subshrub. Flowering in late Winter and all through Spring it makes a great fence cover which should be pruned after flowering.
There are two other species in Australia; a pale pink form called Hardenbergia ‘Rosea’ and a pure white form as well called Hardenbergia ‘Alba’.
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The View North to Mona Vale Beach from Warriewood headland. Photo: Kevin Murray
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Turimetta Beach View, Tuesday November 23rd, 2021. Photo: Joe Mills
Waratah in flower in Ingleside/Elanora Heights by Selena Griffith
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Sand erosion at Palm Beach post-storm of late July - look at old base of the pavilion exposed again after the storm swell of the last week of July 2020
Surfing South Avalon Beach
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Church Point
Powerful owls at Bayview golf course perimeter - photo taken 12/12/2017 - photo supplied. Below: Harold Tristram Squire elephants at Bayview Golf Course
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Taylors Point
Paradise Beach Baths
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Turimetta Beach, April 21, 2022. Photos: Joe Mills