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…

The King Protea, Protea cynaroides, needs no introduction. It is a very worthy holder of the title of South Africa’s…

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

Succulent plants are somewhat rare in fynbos, especially compared to the Karoo to the north. But the stonecrop family, Crassulaceae,…

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