
I saw this magnificent flowering bush on my way back from the gym this morning, and thought it must be a bottlebrush or maybe even a waratah … wonderful Australian natives like my publishers always put on the covers of my Australian historical novels. Oh dear. I have lots to learn. I put the picture into AI and it tells me it’s actually Red Ginger or Alpinia purpurata. So now I know! But still so pretty …and usually native to the Pacific Islands rather than Sydney.
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