Poladroided Plumbago

There is this great application doing the rounds at the moment called Poladroid. It allows you to take an ordinary photograph and turn it into a Polaroid. You can download it here www.poladroid.net and it works on Mac and PC. I ran a few plant photographs through it and uploaded them to Flickr (www.flickr.com) – looks like the seventies!

Bromeliads blooming

These bromeliads are in my brother’s garden. I think they only flower once a year? They are almost luminous in colour!

Roadside Aloe

I have posted these elsewhere and Niall also posted some pics but I thought I should share these beautiful Aloes we came across on the side of the road in the Eastern Cape. Happy Monday!

Beautiful Aloe 1

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some flowers in hogsback

for those of you who haven’t visited hogsback… it is a small village in the eastern cape, in the mountains overlooking alice, where fort hare university is situated. there is a big movement to reclaim the area from the pines and wattles, revitalising the indigenous vegetation. i go relatively regularly to visit friends who live in the area. these are a small selection of photos of some of the flowers i saw.

keeping with the theme of hydrangeas… this was taken in someone’s garden.

i am not sure what this flower is but there was a pretty tree full of them.

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Rare Visitors

The summer has brought with it an incredible display of the Natal Watsonia (Watsonia densiflora) transforming a section of grassland on the Westville campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal into a burst of brilliant colour.  Cultivation, urbanisation and invasive plants have destroyed almost all the grasslands in the Durban area, making this an incredibly rare sight and the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Environment Committee ensures every effort is made to rehabilitate and preserve this heritage as a research and education resource.

Watsonia densiflora