More into Spring Sunday Flower Walk

During the week, while looking for a single yellow Moraea I spotted on a farm last year, I found these other yellow flowers, Orchids? 

Could it be the Cowled Friar Pterygodium catholicum?

Today we tried out a new Trail's End cycle path which has been cut through a forest of aliens. Along the way we have found lilies coming up now that they have sunlight, it will be interesting to see what they are! http://trailsend.bike/ 

It's Wachendorfia time again!

Not sure if this is W. paniculata or not.

A large patch of Geissorhiza?

... and close by, Sparaxis:

Flower detail:

We set off on a different route, between blocks (they are called 'compartments') of recently felled pines, not expecting much, so I snapped this taller Stargrass(?)

Flower detail:

But we were attracted to a splash of pink a short way off the road. A Senecio elegans? :

That wasn't all that was pink there:

A pepper-scented-leaf Pelargonium.

More pink from this low-growing pea-type plant:

Flower detail:

There was also a large area of Trachyandra, absolutely alive with honeybees!

Just at a corner, we had spotted this clump of Agapanthus walshii when the felling was in process. Nice to see it's survived all the vehicle traffic!

But the main colour today was yellow! Huge areas of daisies, making it difficult to find anything else. This Euryops was completely covered in flowers and more buds waiting!

Here is a familiar grass, not sure how to pin it down!

Another shrub we haven't been able to identify yet, growing on the top of a rock, so it probably hasn't been burnt. It has a good crop of berries on it.

I looked down and thought I'd seen a white Pelargonium, but it was a Gladiolus debilis growing up among the leaves.

I remembered around the other side of a rocky outcrop was a Saltera sarcocolla, but didn't remember it was as big as this! This area escaped the fire.

Flower detail:

... and a bud:

We're coming into the Everlasting Helichrysum season, these buds are about to open:

The new year's flowers on what we think is Pseudoselago spuria are out. They get ever longer through the year.

The three long leaves of this Pea-type plant we thought before was Bolusafra bituminosa are not right

There was a suggestion it might be a Rhynchosa, but those leaves don't look right either! Here's the flower. Any ideas?

For some reason the Swallows chose the head of what we call Mammoth Rock to rest on and were making a lot of noise!

The more common Pelargonium in 'our' area are still looking their best. The leaf of this one is hard and dry and makes a paper-type noise when you feel it. Certainly it has no scent!

In a patch which was until recently was thickly infested with Port Jackson, we found this shrub for the first time, and it's in flower:

Could it be Cryptocarya augustifolia of the Stinkwood family? Here's the flower up close:

On the path, (how do they survive?) these Sundews Drosera are pushing up stems and buds already!

At the railway line on the way home we spotted this pink Moraea:

First Agapanthus walshii Bud! Sunday Flower walk

First, we went to Piketberg yesterday and a magnificent tree in a garden caught my eye.

Orchid Tree Bauhinia variegata

The pods gave it away as a pea, maybe the leaves also:

Petals and leaf, picked up

Bauhinia possibly B. variegata.

Flower detail

Here a Malachite Sunbird was feeding in it:

Malachite Sunbird feeding

We went on to a farm 30km further north and found this which we think might just be a Wahlenbergia:

Wahlenbergia?

Back to today, here's the first strong looking bud on an Agapanthus walshii:

Agapanthus walshii with the first bud!

This was on one of the plants that seems to have been affected by frost since coming up after the fire. It certainly has made a strong recovery. The best is this is in a recently deforested part where we've never seen them before! There were more buds to be found.

The Sundews Drosera in the road have pushed up stems with many flowers on them, not something I have observed before. It was overcast, so they were closed.

Drosera with multiple flower stem

We found more of these pink Daisies, Senecio hastifolius, also on a south-east facing slope:

Senecio hastifolius

Suddenly the yellow Daisies Euryops are past their prime, I had to look for this one:

Yellow Daisy Euryops

Pat and Dominic think these white flowers are Pseudoselago, but on looking up, could they be Disparago, maybe D. anomala?

Could this be a Pseudoselago or a Disparago?

They are to be seen all over, this one was the most impressive!

This one took the Cake!

We've seen Tar Peas Bolusafra bitumenosa before:

Tar Pea Bolusafra bitumenosa

Flower detail:

Flower detail

Here's something interesting, fleshy long leaves:

Another Orchid?

 and the beginnings of a bud?

Bud detail

Satyr Orchid?

Satyr Orchid?

The seed pods on the Wachendorfias with the flat-growing sickle-shaped leaves are turning orange already:

Wachendorfia with seed pods turning orange

..... while the 'normal' W. paniculata are only just beginning to open, and most are still in tight bud stage.

Wachendorfia paniculata

It's difficult to walk past these Star-grass Ficinia Radiata without thinking they're yellow daisies!

Star-grass Ficinia radiata

What is the actual flower?

Flower detail

Is this another pea?

Another pea?

The stems branch at the pairs of leaves with two opposite lateral weaker stems each carrying a further flower.

This shows how it grows with the leaves and branched stem

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