If I thought the cloud was low yesterday, it was nothing compared with today. Not even the wetlands in front of the cottage were visible. My plan to do a hike on the way to my next stop were abandoned and I just hoped that as I headed north the…
On any trip there are days where regardless of planning things go wrong and there is nothing you can do about it. The target today was a good long walk on Highmoor towards the Giant’s Castle. I woke to find the clouds so low that one would not even know…
It was time to move on from the heat and humidity of Durban. Syd kindly accompanied me out to the Natal Midlands, where we hoped we might find Kniphofia ichopensis and Kniphofia buchananii, but we only managed to find more populations, albeit good ones, of Kniphofia laxiflora as well as…
Today I was privileged to be shown around Durban by two of the experts in Kniphofia, Dr Syd Ramdhani and Prof. Himansu Baijnath. Although not the most floriferous day on the trip, it was one of the more enlightening ones because apart from seeing the pokers in the field, I…
