No fair. Even their *grass* is way better looking and more interesting than ours! (I still have this vivid memory of eating dinner in a beachside park on the Indian Ocean coast near Perth to watch the sun set, when a huge flock of birds flew into one of the trees near where I was sitting and set up a loud chirping, etc., just like a huge flock of blackbirds or sparrows might do here, the only difference being that these birds happened to be rainbow lorikeets which were orders of magnitude more colorful than any flock of birds I've ever seen around here. Everyone around me of course just thought it was normal...) Thanks for the pictures, Mary Sue. --Lee Poulsen Pasadena, California, USDA Zone 10a Mary Sue Ittner wrote: > On another note I finally got around to adding pictures of Johnsonia, a > genus from Australia that is very unusual. It is rhizomatous and there > seems to be some differences of opinion about which family it currently > belongs to. Without the flower you'd just think it was some kind of a grass. > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… > > >