Letter D

 D for Dryandra which is quite a spectacular plant in Western Australia. Where I live on the eastern coast, none of the Dryandra species grow well, so it is only on a trip to south west Western Australia, that they can be really appreciated in open forests. It is still being debated whether Dryandra should remain a genus on its own or should be subsumed into the genus Banksia, which are the Dryandra's closest relative.  The Dryandra  was named after a Swedist botanist, Jonas Dryander.  The species Dryandra formosa, one of the more common, has large orange/yellow flowers at the end of stems with long toothed leaves. On this week's tag, I interpreted this plant by fusing layers of organza onto acrylic felt  with a soldering iron. I then over stitched the leaves and the flower on the sewing machine. The fused organza D  is hand sewn  onto the felt background.