A Duty Call on Sunday meant we had to slip in a short walk on Saturday afternoon, but we still saw plenty! We were keen to see if the Watsonias we had seen in bud last week might be open. Indeed they are!
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Watsonia schlechteri? |
Checking last year's reports, this is the time of year where we start seeing what we think are Watsonia schlechteri.
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Flower detail |
The leaves on this plant looked different, but it might just be that it's been established longer.
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Is this the same? |
Erica coccinea, we think:
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Erica coccinea (?) |
We were keen to check on details of the small Erica with tiny flowers we came across last week. By back-tracking, we found it!
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Unknown small Erica |
The flowers are in whorls:
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Flower detail |
... and so are the leaves:
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Leaf growth pattern |
Erica pulchella:
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Erica pulchella |
Erica longifolia:
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Erica longifolia |
The first flower is amost past it:
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Erica longifolia and Syncarpha vestita |
Here is a combflower Micranthus with all the side branches on the flower stem in bloom!
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Combflower Micranthus |
We checked on the seed dispersal on what we think is Gladiolus carneus, there must be hundreds if not thousands of seeds!
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Gladiolus carneus spreading seeds! |
I took this photo to show the profusion of fynbos we see in a single vista; the large bush is Psoralea pinifolia, on the left, Lanaria lanata, there are Helichrysums, probably Cape Snow Syncarpha vestita, probably spent Bobartia filiformis in the middle, there's a pink Erica in the middle foreground, there are Restios and grasses and other plants we couldn't even guess the names of! We live in a Floral Wonderland!
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Floral Wonderland! |
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As usual some fantastic photography, in particular the small Erica close ups and the final photo across the country side. The Micranthus, juceus? is pretty but please ecuse if I have it wrong most of these from the fynbos region I only see in books. Nice pic of the Erica and Syncarph together, lovely to see from my armchair in the depths of a Northern Hemisphere winter. leaves us with the Watsonia, at least a flower we northerners see, but is it really W. schlechteri. Sorry Andy, lovely photos, thanks.
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