sanchona's channel

Fishing is great fun

Paintings of Australia scenes in its early colonial days.

An example of Australia native flora, the Banksia flower is tough but beautiful and exotic.

These are pictures of the garden varieties; I have no access to the rare kinds treasured by hibiscus collectors. Still the hibiscus has the charm ...

Kate O'Neal is shipped out to Botany Bay in 1793. She has to survive a year-long voyage and then the next six years as a convict in a new penal col...

A banquet of orchids in various colours to feast upon.

Purple orchids galore. See if you have any of these plants in your garden.

Images of the lotus and the water lily, and how to tell the difference.