Muggy flower walk

What a difference a week makes! Pippa's little thermometer in her rucksack showed 29 degrees! A slight breeze saved the day, when we could feel it. Those tiny Sundews (Drosera) again, I wonder if the flowers will open.... Near them an unknown? Here's the bud of the very first Lanaria lanata we've seen this year: And possibly the last Wachendorfia paniculata: ..... which are going to seed. These will turn into bright orange turbans: We need to be up there in the mornings to see the Aristea africana. The two plants we've found in the orchard have on and off days, but they're definitely Mornings Only! Those up near the cement dam must look stunning when they're out, and there are lots of them! The little Muraltia heisteria is still there, it's all on its own and should be much bigger according to the books, but it's looking good! This Restio actually made my eyes go funny, they didn't know where to focus! We couldn't help being attracted to this Erica fastigiata: The flowers are in clusters like this: Three generations of flowers / seeds on this Brunia: The first buds of the Pseudoselago serrata: Mimetes cucullatus, no flowers here yet! We've seen this little creeper before, better established now, at the base of a pine: A Double Disa Works Wonders? Disa bracteata: This bee was determined to get in at the base of this Sour Fig, Carpobrotus edulis: Back at home, the Keurboom is looking stunning and positively alive and humming with Bumble Bees! Yellowwood Indigenous Nursery has chosen it as Tree of the Year and describes it thus: Virgilia divaricata and V. oroboides are very similar and are often confused with each other. Both are small to medium-sized trees, with a bushy, rounded to broadly conical growth habit with branches growing close to the ground. They are very fast-growing when young, attaining up to 1.3 m. in a year, and reaching their full height in only a few years. V. divaricata rarely exceeds 10 m in height; V. oroboides can reach up to 15 m. They are also relatively short-lived, their average lifespan being 12 to 20 years. The bark is silver-grey and smooth in young trees; as the tree gets older the bark turns grey and rough. The trunk can grow up to 600 mm in diameter. Recently in the newspaper I read it's an offence to cut one down, which can lead to three years in prison! :-) A