The Garden

Some spring flowers of 22. September 2013

Rosie taking photos in the upper garden. Reflection in the dining room windows	Old Aloe ferox, Watsonias and Erica versicolor	Lovely Sunshine, but still some snow on Simonsberg
Leucadendron discolor	Babiana longibracteata at the pool	Family : Proteaceae
Our cycad is flowering	Encephalartos altensteinii	Ruschia lineolata
In winter the path up to the house turnes into a stone garden	Aloe in front of our bedroom attracts sunbirds	Ixia flexuosa
Lovely lachenalias	Harald and Nemo at play	Red-winged Starlings raiding our Loquat tree

The Cape Dwarf Chamaeleon grows to about 20 cm long. It is the only chameleon in South Africa to bear life young. Photo by Florian Breuer	Our magnificent Coral tree Erythrina	Tecoma What is so special about this shrub? It attracts birds - and ...	it never stopped flowering since 1981	Pin-tailed Whydah
Gladiolus carmineus	Leucospermum cordifolium	Lemon tree and Aloe hybrid		Gazania

Entrance pillar with Cycad and Euphorbias	Phoenix reclinata - home to weavers	Southern Masked-Weaver build their nests in our Palm tree
A partial albino (partial leucism)	Red-Faced and Speckled Mousebird	Speckled Mousebird
Red-faced Mousebird	Banana flower	Banana flowering
Aloe ferox with "Jan groentjie"	Malachite Sunbird on Protea laurifolia, where he built his nest	Protea magnifica
Leucospermum conocarpodendron	Protea scolymocephala	Acrobatic Cape Sugarbird feeding on Erica discolor
Erica bauera	Golden Shower on balcony and pergola	Violet Trumpet Vine, also on pergola
Lampranthus aureus	Arctotis	Cotyledon barbeyi
Polygala myrtifolia	Polygala virgata	Amaryllis belladonna
Tree Fuchsia attracts birds	Ruschia lineolata	Another Ruschia and beetles
Echinopsis oxygona	Jacaranda	Jacaranda's blue trumpets
Ylva	Svarthövte	Sunset

Protea cynaroides

Pincushion (Leucospermum cordifolium)

Leucospermum glabrum

Aloe arborescens

Watsonias

Harlequin flowers Sparaxis elegans

Lachenalia aloides

Stapelia Growing indigenous bulb flowers from seeds or leaf cuttings was my favourite pastime.