As
we were in the area last Saturday, we were able to drive from our appointment
at Ridgeback through the very green countryside through Malmesbury and Darling,
looking for spring flowers which we had heard were spectacular this year. They
were good, but perhaps the best are inside the Postberg Nature reserve
A blindingly acid yellow field of daisies
And they stretch almost as far as the eye can see
There is also a lot of oxalis about
A close up of the first field of daisies. We have
not seen this kind in such profusion before
More round the bend
It is also the season when rape seed is in bloom
This is sign that summer is on the way, our sour
fig succulent Carpobrotus edulis, also know as pig face, blooming. And next to
it Cape Snow Bush or Kapokbossie, often called wild Rosemary, though not
related
Misty mountains and more yellow daisies with a
blue flower
Nice contrasts of Cape fynbos, probably
Renosterveld up in this area, wheat fields, resting vines, spring flowers and Cape
thatching reeds (restios)
Blue flowers with yellow centres, we have looked
but cannot identify them, growing alongside the yellow daisies
A shiny black beetle on an Arum lily
Another blue flower, rather like a harebell
John was standing near this kiewiet’s (crowned
plover’s) nest and he was the beneficiary of a lovely display of GO AWAY! with
loud warning noises from the breeding pair
Those blue flowers in profusion
These were growing in the Tienie Versveld wild
flower reserve near Darling
Colourful Mesembryanthemum - locally known as
vygies (fairies)
Up close
they glow
More star flowers, Cape Star or Spiloxene
Ornithogalum
thyrsoides, known here as chincherinchees, just beginning to bloom. There were
acres of them
It seems to be a predominately yellow year in this
region
The yellow daisies laced with blue flax Heliophila
Romulea Rosea
Bright orange gerbera daisies
Such pretty colour mixes
© John & Lynne
Ford, Adamastor & Bacchus 2016
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