I was recently up in the Eastern Freestate and these beautiful cosmos flowers line the country roads. Found this great quote on the South African Tourism site, and its true, we did drive past many war memorials.
“It is no coincidence that the roads lined with cosmos flowers lead to many memorials of the Anglo-Boer War. Historians believe that the seeds of the flowers, originally from Mexico, were brought in with bags of feed for English horses during the war and today they flower in luminous marshmallow shades of pink and white from late summer to late autumn.”
Patrick
wow! cool story behind the cosmos!
and such beautiful flowers.
lovely. makes me think of drives from jo’berg to umdloti for easter. I looked forward to the cosmos every trip!
Thanks for lovely pics and history of plants gathered in Dec along the Golden Gate road for my old friend (who was gracious about the parched darlings that landed on her limestone doorstep). Clarens does great cherry everything, those blossoms must be fabulous in the mountain setting.