Then yesterday at Compagnes Drift Mill, where we celebrated Heritage Day, this Gazania stopped me in my tracks. In fact later in the day there was a second one growing through it, the bud must have been behind it!
As we were enjoying lunch outside, listening to the machinery inside creaking away, a Lesser Double-collared Sunbird was having lunch on an aloe too.
The Coral tree there is shy to set flowers, but they are impressive when they do!
This morning on the farm, Pippa spotted an Aristea africana open. I rushed out with the camera, knowing they're a mornings-only flower!
Another sign of spring, a Pin-tailed Whydah flirting with a couple of females in the garden.
Yes, the walk today was mostly yellow. I was wondering why some people travel long distances for Spring Flowers when they're right here!
Up close, vying for a space in the sun!
It seemed the only other colour was pink in several shades, Sheep Sorrel here:
.... and the Pelargoniums are still in flower:
We found another example of the peppery-scented-leaves one, right next to the path too:
Also pink were these little pea types:
Flower detail:
.... these Teedias:
and our faithful Saltera sarcocolla!
A lot of our walk was in the recently deforested (and by chance also burnt) area where we were often watched by these Stone Chats:
A plant we've found has really established itself since the fire of nearly two years ago is the Trachyandra. It's not impressive, with tiny pinkish flowers, bootlace like leaves, but the bees go mad about it!
On what we think is Pseudoselago spuria the flowers are filling out:
This plant has us stumped! Will it ever flower to help us identify it?
The pathway past the old Railway cottages always comes up trumps. Now the Beetle Lilies are up, but not fully open yet, Baeometra uniflora:
These now join the Sparaxis bulbiflora:
Geissorhiza aspera:
Was this the only blue flower all day? No! The Lobelias were also out!
... and these orange Moraeas all in 50 metres!
:-) Andy
