Yes, that's what Pippa found, lying on the ground exposed by the fire!
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Pippa found two shillings and sixpence! |
1953 and 1959! Our pocket money in '59 was a shilling a week and you could buy three pink Star sweets or two Wilsons toffees for a penny! If they could only tell a story!
She also noticed a tortoise helplessly stuck between the two railway lines, picked it up carefully, knowing it would 'wet itself' and put it down a short distance away. We looked later and it was nowhere to be found.
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Rescued tortoise from between the railway lines |
We seem to have agreement on iSpot that 'our' Buchu Agathosma isn't A. betulina as I thought, but A. crenulata. Its 'babies' are doing well.
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Baby Buchu's Agathosma crenulata |
I noticed a pink hue to the flowers for the first time, but couldn't get the camera to focus on them.
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Agathosma crenulata flower |
We were happy to see what we think is Gladiolus carneus re-growing nicely. There has been no rain for a couple of weeks.
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We think this is recovering Gladiolus carneus |
This looks like a Wachendorfia with its pleated leaves.
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Wachendorfia, possibly W. paniculata |
We keep finding Fire Asparagus Asparagus lignosus:
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Fire Asparagus Asparagus lignosus between the rocks |
Pelargoniums are recovering well, sometimes straight out of the ground, sometimes at the base of a burned bush.
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Pelargonium |
Here is what is probably a Watsonia schlechteri which has escaped the worst of the fire. The leaves with the single rib in the middle help identify many more coming up elsewhere.
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Watsonia schlechteri |
.... but these leaves are much broader. It will be exciting finding out what each one is!
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A wider leaf? |
In the 'gully' we were attracted to a splash of bright green, probably Lanaria lanata. What is interesting is the way it seems to have shed the burned ends of the leaves.
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Lanaria lanata (?), with burned leaf-ends shed |
We were disturbed during our walk by a motor bike zooming around, not staying on the tracks, making its own tracks straight up and down hills in the burned veld. The worry is that these tracks might lead to erosion when the rains come. In two places the bike nearly rode over precious Agapanthus walshii plants.
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Motor bike tracks, close to Agapanthus walshii plants |
I filmed the activity and reported it: https://youtu.be/2afLkbSM-PU and https://youtu.be/zEFNg1o2Z8Q and http://youtu.be/RACJ3B20gTU
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