Hello all,
Where to begin? The Ericas are impressive at the moment, sometimes in big clumps made up of different varieties:
Three distinct types:
The Saltera sarcocolla are nearly finished, just one flower on this one, the rest have gone to seed.
Quite a few Roella around still..... (there was quite a wind up there this afternoon!)
Not everything in flower has impressive colours, this one needs to be identified still:
Jessie asked us to look for seeds on the Agapanthus walshii, as hers has been eaten off by a mole. Not promising, (perhaps this is why they're so rare?) most of the stalks were bare.
In one area we found several Othonna quinquedentata which now have their insignificant daisy-like flowers out.
Fluffed the focus!
This yellow plant, (there were several in a small area) stood out.
The wild lobelia are to be seen all over the place!
We found another specimen of what we found near the A. walshii's last week and now think is an Erica longifolia (?). Actually not far away from the others as the crow flies.
We're not sure if this is something special or an invader, the stem didn't look like fynbos:
This needs to be found still in the Protea book:
Another view:
This was an interesting ground-cover plant, with tiny yellow or orange flowers.
Another mystery!
It's astonishing how this hardy Daisy can survive for years in a crack in a vertical rock face!
I suspect this is another Daisy:
The Lanaria lanata are mostly fully open like this or gone completely, they start as a round white ball:
During the week, in another area on the way to Iona Vineyards, I spotted some Nivenia stokoei:
There were quite a few, all around the beginning of the Perdekloof trail. The vivid blue was difficult to miss! The leaves are flat and look as though they're plaited.
:-) A
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