Wild/Flower Women

Back home & back to our wonderful wildflower walks & experiences - including one tomorrow (Aug 25). That one is the circuit in Noosa National Park behind Sunshine Beach & there’s another this Saturday (Aug 29) at one of the best flowering spots this season. That one is just outside Beerwah! I’ve been off on another Wildlowering & walking tangent so haven’t had much chance to promote these - so spots still available for both. Check out Wild/flower Women Projects on Eventbrite 🙏🏽💜

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/o/wildflower-women-projects-32939647711

This year’s walks are presented in partnership with the The Wildflowering Collective for (& beyond)

From showers and rain to rainbows & sunshine - a little bit of everything as I shared the Wallum love with Fraser Coast art students today! An added bonus was the presence of ‘Wildflowering by Design’ artist (and school artist in residence) emma thorp and her keen eye spotting the tiny bladderworts & sundews! I hope they felt a little of the magic 🙏🏽💛.

It was great to have a group of the artists/designers attend the launch of our ‘Design Wilds’ exhibition in the unique outdoor gallery space of Galley Lane at Coolum. Thanks so much to the wonderful team from Coolum Art Project, the businesses that support this endeavour & those who came along to see & support the opening. The collection of new designs will be on show until mid-September. (In the laneway near Yum Gelato) 🙏🏽💜

Pic 1, Back - Dimitie Smith, Anna Hanssen, Cecile Bell, Front - Leighanne McHugh, Lisa Chandler, Marni Stuart, Sue Davis, Aunty Hope O’Chin, Sarah Jane Smith.

Pic 2 - attendees at the ‘Design Wilds’ opening including artists & curators, Coolum Art Project (CAP) members, Maria Suarez, Division 9 Sunshine Coast Council & other friends & supporters

Pic 3 - exhibition curators & CAP members

Photos by Sarah Jane Smith Sarah Jane Smith

Acknowledgement:

This project was made possible by funding from the Grants Program Sunshine Coast Council. It is an initiative of The Wildflowering Collective Inc and also supported by UniSC.

The Wildflowering Collective Coolum Art Project

You know, now is the best time of the year to see our local wildflowers! If you can't join one of our walks you can purchase our handy wildflower and walks booklets - the Sunshine Coast edition and the 2nd edition for Cooloola. And for this weekend only there is a 10% discount for all merch in the Wild/flower Women shop. See
https://www.wildflowerwomen.com.au/shop
(enter the code WILDFLOWERS for a 10% discount)

What looks like snow-crusted shrubbery is actually the tiny bearded heaths - they are coming out in force at present. There’s Leucopogon pimeleoides first up then I think it’s Styphelia ericoides (yes another name change)! When you get close up you see how ‘bearded’ they are inside 🤍

No Sun Orchids spotted today, and no irises out though could see the remnants of past flowerings - it was all about the whites!

And it was another wonderful day for the Sun Orchids (Thelymitra sp.). After install of ‘Design Wilds’ at Coolum we decided to check out a spot where we saw them a few years ago. At first no luck but looking, looking, looking… found them! 💙💜💙

Lisa Chandler

Another cutie out now is the Doubletail or Donkey Orchid (Diuris unica), one we should see on our Saturday walk - a few spots left, always a treat!

See ‘Wild/flower women projects’ on Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/discover-the-wildflower-diversity-of-emu-mt-tickets-1995056358273