Evening falls in the suburbs... This post is part of the  Skywatch Friday meme , and also part of the Saturday Silhouettes meme .

The System Garden was the creation of Frederick McCoy, the first professor of Natural Science at the University of Melbourne. Begun in 1856,...

White's Tea-Tree, Leptospermum whitei , is a sturdy, often multi-stemmed shrub reaching up to 5m in height (under ideal conditions). Its...

The Werribee River is a perennial river of the Port Phillip catchment that is located on the plain West of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. T...

Some of Melbourne's most iconic buildings were lit up in red, white and blue on Saturday, in solidarity with France following the Paris ...

A couple of weeks ago we were in Brunswick and by chance we wandered into the Town Hall, where a Machine Knitters exhibition and fair was in...

Readers of this blog may remember a couple of weeks ago I reported that we had blackbirds nesting in our garden . I now complete this post b...

South Wharf on the southern bank of the Yarra is surrounded by many shopping, dining and conference facilities. The new South Wharf Promenad...

Yarra Bend Park has been one of Melbourne’s largest expanses of inner suburban parkland for nearly 150 years. Yarra Bend Park and neighbouri...

Philadelphus , (the mock-orange) is a genus of about 60 species of shrubs from 1 to 6 m tall, native to North America, Central America, Asia...