Florilegium
Ever since an Insta influencer slipped ‘Florilegium’ in my lexical library, a splash of colours from Australian flora was eddying up and I knew it wouldn’t settle until I compiled in this page every flower I photographed over the past decade. It wasn’t as elephantine a task as it looks - a simple search with ‘Flowers’ rummaged my Photos Library and herded all the images I captured since 2015. In mere minutes I assembled them in one place - wattles, Waratahs, wisterias, banksias, kangaroo paws, jacarandas, bears 🐻 breeches, fox 🦊 gloves, 🐷 pigface, 🍒 cherry blossoms, apricot blossoms, lilies, tulips, azaleas, myrtles, bottlebrushes, gazanias, daisies, canolas, lavenders, magnolias, gardenias, jasmines, hydrangeas, agapanthuses, hawthorns, camellias, Pride of Madeira, red hot pokers, fairy petticoats, and so on. What was amazing though was reflecting how much I learned starting from scratch (almost nescience); a slight subtle sense of pride surged at the fact that I remembered e...