Most proteas are winter or spring flowering, so by mid-summer their spectacle is over. This does not mean to say…

One of the beauties of the fynbos is the red everlasting, Phaenocoma prolifera. The bright magenta-red flowers appear in spring…

Midsummer on the Klein River Mountains sees the arrival of purple clumps of Pseudoselago pulchra. This species must count as…

A curious aspect of living amongst the Cape Flora is that we sometimes forget how special some of our commoner…

There are many pretty species of Erica but only one truly bears the name: Erica pulchella. (“Pulchella” is the Latin…

The common name Milkweed is often used for plants of the Apocynaceae family that produce milky sap. It is most…