Vegetation
Royal Botanic Gardens
The Royal Botanic Gardens of Sydney are an oasis of greenery next to downtown, just behind the Opera. I love the notice encouraging to walk on the grass, which should put to shame all French parks.
Although my visit took place at the beginning of winter, I caught the last bird of paradise flowers.
All the plants are rather exuberant, like this huge fig tree, the place you would like to build a hut in.
The fern house shows the scale of ferns when they are happy, and its architecture is very interesting too.
The tours of the gardens guided by loving botanists are extremely interesting, focusing on native plants and Australian botanists history.
Gum tree
Koala’s favourite food is king of the Blue Mountains, but it is also present on the red background of the desert.
Sydney harbour
In Sydney’s gardens and parks, I met this wild tree root, in a park facing the bay, and a lush banana tree, next to a museum.
Red desert
The red desert is red and green… it was winter, so I even got a few drops of rain.
Red flowers against a blue sky, and a dead tree also makes a weird geometry before the sky.
