Whipstick Forest

Just  two hours North West of Melbourne and you enter the vast world of the Mallee scrub that covers the drier parts of South Eastern Australia.  In August, you will begin to see the brief flowering of this ancient forest before the setting of the summer heat. Closer to Bendigo, in the Ironbark forests, the miners' gold has been replaced by the golden sprays of winter wattle.

Acacia genistifolia Whipstick mallee covers the abandoned mullock heaps Acacia gunnii aptly named the "plough share" wattle
the prickly Hakea sericea does not bar our path Baeckea ramosissima spreads pink over the thin forest floor Many forms of the Grevillea alpina are brighter but these grow in a ravaged mining land
Phebalium obocordatum Whipstick wattle colours the black barked iron bark forest Acacia pycnantha is our brightest wattle in the late winter