In the shimmering heat of summer, the spikes of Watsonia schlechteri appear as beacons amongst the fynbos. Often producing a single spike of up to 30 large trumpet-shaped lurid orange-scarlet flowers, the individual plants can be spotted from considerable distance across the mountain slopes. While this certainly attracts the attention…
Erica discolor has started to bloom around Phillipskop. It is easy to spot but has a rather misleading scientific name. To discolor in English means to change the colour of an object, usually to one that is less attractive than the original. Once you have seen the plant, I do…
Are you a person who has to climb something “because it’s there”? Despite my focus on plants on this trip, there is still a part of that mentality inside me which is difficult to shake. So when I had found all the Kniphofia I was wanting to find at Rhodes…
