My street is lined with banksias. I love everything about these banksias — the variety of forms the trees take, and the world of forms within each tree. And then there is the silvery underside of leaf, and the unique shape of each seed head.

And ...... the velvety inner core, just revealed, once used as pipe cleaners. The parrots and the wattle birds come. Even the name evokes. I know integrifolia is above leaves, but I like the integrity that hides in the name. The trees connect my present to the past.
Janet Bolitho — Port Melbourne

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