Cape Town in bloom

I’m down in Cape Town this week, visiting family and having a break from Durban and work.  And I think I’ve timed it perfectly!  I took a stroll along the Pipe Trail on Table Mountain and the fynbos is in bloom.  Such beautiful, interesting flowers.  I didn’t have my camera with me, but snapped a shot of this fascinating plant with my phone.

Cape Town flora

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Arbor Month

Arbor Month starts today, and isn’t it also the first day of spring?  In any case, you have a month to plant a tree and some of the larger supermarkets (Pick ‘n Pay, Woolworths, maybe others?) have made it really easy, selling young, indigenous trees in the flower aisle.

So no excuses, get planting

My tree fern and other plants

So the tree fern has given us a show of exuberant happiness this season, along with the chocolate cosmos which nestles … (okay, will leave out the silly pun) – but seriously they even smell of chocolate, and a moment of chocolate sniff does *not* stay a lifetime on the hips. Along the fence the petunia baskets hang above the pots of parsley, overseen by the tomato plant. What a lovely garden in the late London summer, even if I say so myself.

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