I wish we had these beauties, instead of our nasty dandylion weeds.

I got them too, Inga; yesterday I went though nearly 20 litre of Glysophcate (might have mis-spelt it, weedkiller) killing off and acre and a half of weeds, including dandylion.

We are no longer allowed to use the weed killer, that eradicates them. So we get more and more of them.

I remember seeing Isopogons growing down south, they look very attractive. We don't get a lot of Proteaceae up here, they're more common in less humid areas, particularly like Western Australia and South Africa. Apart from some of the Grevilleas, a lot of the tropical ones are large trees.