Pink Winter (not Spring) flowers

Looking at the grassy areas around town one would hardly say that today is (officially) the first day of Winter. After all the good rains we've been having lately there has been a lot of little pink, white and some yellow wild flowers blooming all over town. I found this patch in a play park in … Continue reading Pink Winter (not Spring) flowers →

Red Hot Poker by the sea

When its hot, you go to the beach. So when you're a Red Hot Poker, perhaps a spot next to the sea would be an ideal spot for you. The latin name for the Red Hot Poker is Kniphofia and its also sometimes known as a Torch lily or Poker plant. According the the clever people contributing to Wikipedia, … Continue reading Red Hot Poker by the sea →

Sacramento Trail flowers

A patch of yellow flowers on the Sacramento Trail at Schoenmakerskop

Bromeliad

River iris

I'm not really sure what type of flower this is, but my guess is an iris. And because I found it next to a river, I will be calling it a River Iris for now.Update: Zania send me the following on Facebook: "Correct - it is from Iris family. looks more like the Scarlet river lily … Continue reading River iris →

Pink Flowers

I have decided to do a Random ... theme post featuring pink flowers photographed in the Natal Drakensberg as I don't really feel that any of them are good enough to stand alone but still would like to show them to you.

Protea bugs

Caroline posted a picture of a protea with a bee in it over the weekend and I thought I should try and go one better. Not the picture itself, but what is in the protea. In this case not just one better, but many little flying insects.

Flowers over Main Street

Happy Valentines Day everybody. I decided against doing the typical Valentines post (probably because I had no romantic photos on hand), but did include flowers. Pretty Bouganvilla flowers above Govan Mbeki Street (previously known as Main Street).

Mountain flowers for Valentines Day

Seeing that today is the day of love and flowers are (or at least should be) associated with Valentines Day, I have decided to post a selection of flower pictures taken in the Drakensberg. I took the picture of the orange flower on the Tugela Gorge hiking trail. I specially like this picture because Chaos Boy in … Continue reading Mountain flowers for Valentines Day →

Mountain Proteas

Whenever we went for a walk on one of the trails around the campsite and started climbing up the mountain side across the rolling hillsides, we would pass through a protea belt. I was always under the impression that proteas, being a plant in the Fynbos (Cape Floral Kingdom) biome, only occurred in the Western … Continue reading Mountain Proteas →