St Ives trails - mini flowers day : February 10 2026

Got a hot day cooking up. Saw a Facebook post about the first brittle midge orchids emerging - February is their normal month for flowering. Got in the car to visit one known spot with a plan to look for wasp orchid after - then shop.

No sign of the midge orchids in the Ku-ring Gai Wildflower Garden - a known spot. Did find a mushroom - red - seasons are changing

The cross work tells me this is a St Andrews Cross spider but the size and colour suggest something different. Shorter and stubbier - the flash of yellow got my eye.

Decided to walk St Ives Showgrounds fire trail. It has a lot of grassy areas which is great for the other midge orchids and there is a rainforest bit. I like walking here - somewhat level - little traffic noise though it has never been great for orchids

First flower is a mini flower. This one might be two thirds the width of a US penny. Makes for hard photo work especially in bright light

This one is even smaller - part of a cluster of 5 or 6 flowers on one spike - even harder to photograph

Mini flannel flower - aconitiflorus minor - maybe the size of a US penny

NSW coral heath flower - epacris pulchella

Going up in size - leptospermum squarrosum - peach-flowered tea tree. Always a haven for ants and flies after the sweet nectar. As the flowers are close together, ants work fine as pollinators. Walk down the spike to the next flower

Golden top mushroom almost up to saucer size. Also an orchid shot with bonnet orchid leaf in the foreground

Stepped back photo - a bunch of orchid leaves but not a single flower spike. No sign of seeded either

Butterfly action - missed the first shot but it did pose on this rock long enough

A grand old redgum - not quite a metre across

Standing maybe 30 metres - interesting sky above

Next in the mini flowers series

A flash of yellow. A bit bigger than the others. Not sure what it is

Context photo - basically at the bottom corner of the fire trail. Trail to the right runs up the East side. Main trail is the north boundary

New sigange since my last visit. Have seen waratahs flowering - the flower on the notice. People do steal them. That is why I do not share locations other than broadly

Back to mini flowers - lobelia. Happy with the zoomed in photo

Hibbertia in the rain forest. No luck with ant orchids here - did collect a friend

Always a leech in the wet spots especially a few days after rain

Golden top mushrooms on the way back - a few in one spot

Side on showing stem and unfolding helmet

Back to the tiny flowers - sundew flower - as small as the small pink one above

More in the tiny flower series

Twining glycine wraps up the tiny flowers series

One more gold top mushroom.

Was a good tiny flower walk. Too bad there were no orchids

Was too hot and sweaty to do the shopping after the walk. Went home - showered there - walked to shops late for a few things. Was hot

We had a lovely visit form my wife's grandson - he wanted to go in the blue cark to see Ouma Mark. He dug out cars from his favourite toybbox. Chatted with me for a while

Did cook dinner through all that - spaghetti bolognese

Spent a lot of the afternoon implementing some new ideas - scrolling videos for the launch I am working on. Posted the first video on YouTube shorts

Got more views than both my prior Passive Income videos - step one of a new journey

Best win - did create a GPT that does all tha reel description work. Not hard to do bit great value as a tool to give away as a bonus on product launches

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Did also post on IG but inking out how best to stsrt a TikTok channel.
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