We just wanted to check that there was no damage to our little area from the bikes, nothing to worry about!
A week before cue, in the garden, Amaryllis belladonna (March Lily):
On the Experimental Farm dam, we were rewarded by a Spoonbill, first flying around and then settling on the other side, along with Yellow-billed ducks:
There are splashes of pale yellow, coming from these:
  
The Helichrysums are looking a bit tired now:
... but there's new growth on this type:
Ericas once again are all over, varied in colour, and close up their flowers differ soooo much!
   
This one has a flower within a flower, Erica coriifolia?
We were attracted to a splash of orange in the distance. We've been watching the Liparia splendens (Mountain Dahlia) develop buds slowly, but now they're out!
Bud above, and flower below:
If all the buds open on this one together, it'll be an impressive sight!
Nearby, a small Carpobrotus edulis (Sour Fig) was growing near an Oftia with berries. Or is it a Teedia?
Each berry seems to house many tiny black seeds:
Near that, a Lobelia, very different from our 'normal' tomentosa (or is it coronopifolia?). This one has needle-like leaves right up to the flower:
Is this Lobelia pinifolia? The flower is different also:
For our world, this is a BIG bush!
But what is it? Could it be a Morella serrata?
It looks different from what we think might be a Brabejum stellatifolium (Wild Almond, as in van Riebeeck's hedge) growing nearby. Or are they the same?
A spent flower beehind:
Here's a nice example of what we think might be a Euryops abrotanifolius or Ursinia paleacea:
We're checking the progress on the seeds on the Agapanthus walshii flowers. Near one, there are several smaller plants which have come up. It seems there must be a natural predator, because the ground was dug up near this one and the corm has been neatly eaten off and the remainder left:
Near the ground, next to a rocky outcrop we found this growing close to the ground. Tiny flowers with petals arranged in a semi-circle:
New flowers out beyond the spent ones. Any ideas?
Here's a Saltera sarcocolla in flower:
The flower is exquisite!
Before, we have suggested that this might be Erica plukenetii, now we're not sure:
It now has a lot of new growth beyond the flowers. Can this be the subspecies penicellata?
There aren't many flowers on the Pelargoniums at the moment, but they are beautiful where they are out!
Here's one of the last Pseudoselago serratas (Purple powderpuff) in our area, as usual with the obligatory beetles:
There was lots more..... having spent the morning cutting the grass at home, I wondered why we bother to garden, with all this just a couple of kilometres from our back door!
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