Another Saturday Sunday Flower Walk

A Vintage Engine display at the Classic Car & Bike Show at Timour Hall on Sunday, meant a walk on Saturday.

In the week, I just had to stop and take a photo of these four Blue Cranes in Paul Wallace's vineyard:

Four Blue Cranes

I have had trouble picking up the detail in the flowers of the Prickly Pear Opuntia, so I used my own shadow. This is the first of a new flush of flowers:

Opuntia flower detail

We've got to the time of year we see the Stoebe flowers open. This is the one with the round yellowish flowers and grey leaves.

Stoebe in flower, but which one? 

Hanging on for dear life, this Roella incurva is in danger of being washed away. There were many more further up along the road, either they have been washed away or the grader caught them.

Roella incurva on a bank about to be washed away

There are others, further from the road which are well established:

Roella incurva in a safer place!

Is this why it's called 'incurva'?

Flower detail

There are still some enormous Purple Powder Puff Pseudoselago serrata flowers open!

Purple Powder Puff Pseudoselago serrata flower

I have included close-ups of the Erica pulchella in the past. This is how they grow, not densely packed with flowers like some, but still vivid splashes of pink in the undergrowth.

Erica pulchella plant

We were delighted to spot the first Liparia splendens flowers open!

Liparia splendens

The veld is dotted with these which we think are Watsonia schlechteri, sometimes singly, often in clusters like this:

Watsonia schlechteri (?)

We wanted to check the area we call the ravine, particularly for the two Agapanthus walshii we know of there. We were pleased to spot a third we have never seen before, with two flowers on it this year, even though they're a bit sparse:

Two weak flowers on an Agapanthus walshii we have not seen before

At the top we were rewarded by finding the Mimetes cucullatus in full flower

Mimetes cucullatus flower

It's a magnificent specimen!

Mimetes cucullatus plant

At last! A picture of the Gnidia anormala in focus!

Gnidia anomala

The Leucospermum oleifolium next to the cycle track is doing well despite being badly damaged by the felling. It's now in the open and we look forward to some flowers!

Leucospermum oleifolium

Also damaged; in fact we had to uncover the plant, was this Liparia splendens. We knew there was an Agapanthus under it, but we've never seen it flower. There's another bud in the foreground:

Liparia splendens and Agapanthus

On the way back we checked on the 'new' Erica obliqua we found last week and were pleased to find another, growing up through other plants:

Another Erica obliqua!

And that brought us to the place where we saw the 11 Agapanthus walshii flowers on one plant, looking their best now!

Eleven Agapanthus walshii flowers on one plant!

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