Orchid-viewing Open Day at Vale Park Sunday 11.9.16 10am – noon, followed by shared picnic

We are inviting members and friends to a relaxed Open Day to view our amazing reintroduced native orchids, lilies and other spring flowers on Sunday 11.9.16 10am – noon, followed by a shared BYO picnic BBQ. Bush tucker tastings (including icecreams), plant giveaways and morning tea also featured.

A number of native orchid are currently flowering including both pink and white forms of the beautiful Pink Fairies (Caladenia latifolia). The ‘White Fairies’ are forming large clumps with an occasional new seedling, but the pink Pink Fairies have spread by seed all over the central slope, including in the White Fairy clumps

We also have many of the Rare Blunt Greenhoods (Pterostylis curta) still flowering and hopefully our King Spider orchids (Caladenia tentaculata) will be out by then too. We have buds on some Donkey Orchids (Diuris orientis) and Blue Sun Orchid (Thelymitra nuda). 

The wattles, cassias and boobiallas  are  all flowering now, as are our ever expanding Chocolate and Bulbine lilies.  Did you know that Chocolate lilies flowers smell like vanilla icecream, especially on warmer days?

Our Wildflower Walk  is located on the slope below the carpark on the Vale Park (western) side  of the Ascot Avenue/Lower Portrush Road bridge over the River Torrens. The entrances to the Walk are roughly opposite the BBQ’s in the park (Willow Bend Reserve) below the carpark.  The park and Wildflower Walk are part of the River Torrens Linear Park.