If you have a cuppa with you, then take it and wander around the gallery area on foot. On the wall behind the gallery is the Pandora pandorea vine dripping with blossom and you look right up into the spotted throats of the bell flowers. The deep scarlet flowers on the spiky bushes are Hakea purpurea. In front of the gallery are several of the little known Merinda Gordon grevilleas with the holly like leaves. These are hard to find in plant nurseries. Several Robyn and Sandra Gordon plants are nearby.

Walking towards the high tank are examples of hybrid grevilleas, many of which are grown in home gardens. These are regularly pruned to give plenty of new growth and flowers, whereas the species grevilleas in the rest of the Garden are not pruned at all, but are left, as they would be in nature.

Senna artemisiodes, previously the Silver cassia, with its silver leaves and cape of gold looks like a wattle from a distance, but has yellow cup shaped flowers. It is in flower along some roadsides now. At the twin picnic tables under the Poplar box are many eremophilas. Park and look about. These bushes are quite insignificant the rest of the year but become stunning when in flower. Over the road, see the tall red flowering Eucalyptus erythronema with pink flowering Micromyrtus rosea at ground level.

The row of Eucalyptus salubris is always worth a stop as the glorious colours of the bark are ever changing with the light - I like to give one a hug.

Now is the time of the Melaleucas. The cream flowering one, Melaleuca groveana is covered with many bees and insects. Beside the Bendee picnic table is M calothamnoides with flowers that change from green yellow to orange. Here too are the baby grass trees.

Banksia ashbyi with the last of its orange winter candles is worth a close up photo. And Eucalyptus grossa with its chunky buds and branch distortions is a study in character. Maybe it is now in flower? They are almost green in colour.

The top end of the Garden in the Western Walk has a selection of grevilleas and the brilliant red bottlebrush flowers of the Kunzea pulchella. Look for Grevillea disjuncta, insignis and sprawling G tenuiloba in flower, and smell the honey on the white flowered grevilleas. Do stop and park at the bus turnaround and walk around to get the best value here. Over the road are the Babingtonia (once Baeckia) with the delicate arches of tiny white flowers.

Also lining the road edge are the wondrous ground banksias with vigorous flower spikes. So soft and furry. Don’t damage them please. The dead grevillea nearby is a haven for many small finches and there is usually a nest there. Likewise for the Grevillea tetragonoloba further along.

Tucked in around the corner is a row of mature Eucalyptus stricklandii that has a mass of buds - are any open yet? Behind these, the Grevillea obliquastigmas that have naturalised give good habitat protection for many birds. If you are interested in birds, there is a list of birds observed in the Garden available from the gallery.

The Gordon grevilleas are more obvious now that they have been cleared in front of them, with new plantings of Robyn and Sandra Gordon. Check the signage for the parents and try to find these plants. The Grevillea whiteana around the large sign will have masses of large white spikes soon. Behind the grevilleas are some Allocasuarina acutivalvis - the male is in flower giving the tree a rusty red tone. Look for the taller Grevillea parallela with white flowers at the top.

More Melaleucas here too. Melaleuca spicigera has flowers. Opposite the Gumnut Walk sign are M filifolia with masses of pink flowers and M megacephala with large yellow flowers. The Gumnut Walk has a selection of eucalypts with many different shaped buds and seed capsules. The mature shape of eucalypt canopies varies widely – look around at the various tree shapes you can see here. The barks are very different too.

At Honey Eater Walk the Grevilleas to look for are the round bush of Grevillea thelemanniana, and G kennedyana with its grey leaves, only looks like it is dying. Back behind these is the spiky Dryandra arborea with lemon coloured flowers on the ends of branches. On the outside of the loop road is G petrophiloides with its watermelon colours in profusion.

Also in this region is the spotted bark of the Flindersia maculosa. See the sprawling plants at the base -  this is the form of the new trees.

This garden is a natural bush garden, with many botanic labels on plants, but we like to think that there is opportunity for photographers to take photos in which labels and signage are not too intrusive. Do look at the overall landscape and tree line for the true beauty of Australian plants.

Many more will burst into colour, so do mention any more that you see and they can be added to the list for others to enjoy.