Yes, come rain or shine, your flower spotters are out (otherwise the dogs are restless all week)! Now it's raining from the Southeast, horizontally and we came back soaked. Let's hope this rain is going up north where they're desperate for it.
First, thanks to Talitha we have an identification for this tiny plant, one of the Drosera or Sundew. There wasn't any sun, so the flowers which she told us to look out for, were closed:
Amongst them, this Disa, one of the Orchid family, shows how small the Sundews are!
The daisies are by no means finished although in the dull weather, many were partly closed.
We went back to the yellowish bush with the bright yellow pea-shaped flowers:
 
No name forthcoming yet! This is how it grows:
The white Helichrysums are plentiful, but again, closed for the day!
But the rain doesn't affect the Brunias:
We're watching for where we know some Fire-lilies are, right on the cycle path and we keep widening the track on the other side and packing rocks on this side. They are pushing leaves up now:
I took a picture of this clump a couple of weeks ago, recently exposed to the sunlight after pines were cut. It looks as though the leaves have been burned, perhaps by unaccustomed exposure?
A Saltera sarcocolla looked very bright in the overcast light:
Suddenly, the Pelargoniums are out!
 
By this stage we were so wet we turned back for home, soaked!
But this morning on the farm, the Aristeas were looking fabulous:
The photo above doesn't do justice to the vivid blue of the flowers!
It looks as though there are plenty more buds waiting to unwind! Compare these to a different 'captive' Aristea in Steen's garden on the farm:
It also has six petals, but three smaller ones are behind and between the others. Steen works at a Garden Shop so has some interesting flowers in the garden!
That's all for this week!
:-) Andy
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