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August Wildflower Wednesday looks to spring 23 Aug 2013 | 07:34 pm
We have snow on the mountains. Only 3C last night. Yes it’s plus, but as we don’t get frost, for us that is COLD!! We drive a few minutes out of Porterville, to see the snow caps hidden behind our Ele...
Winter day at Rocher Pan 15 Aug 2013 | 07:26 pm
He prefers to choose his days out in brilliant sparkling sunshine, his Swiss roots showing. I revelled in a grey winter day, low cloud, heavy sea fog – a world of our own enclosed in grey and damp. We...
By the sea 1 Aug 2013 | 03:21 pm
Mid-July we had a day off, a day out of the current round of Life Happens. We were in Simon's Town for another flying visit to our future garden on False Bay. Putting another hook out on the web, I'...
Winter sun and Japanese flowering quince 25 Jul 2013 | 12:35 am
In July, our garden greets us with an explosion of Japanese flowering quince. The inherited shrubs are halfway down our driveway and turn passing heads. Time to harvest cuttings for False Bay? Septemb...
Blotanical 2 news 11 Jul 2013 | 11:40 pm
on my False Bay blog Pig's Ears and Blotanical 2. This week with July's plant in Dozen for Diana.
Strawberry moon for Wildflower Wednesday 29 Jun 2013 | 08:36 pm
That supermoon was a ‘Strawberry Moon – This name was universal to every Algonquin tribe. In Europe they called it the Rose Moon. The relatively short season for harvesting strawberries comes each yea...
From the snow-capped Groot Winterhoek to Serendip 21 Jun 2013 | 04:38 pm
Whether it’s our hiking boots following the trail. Or the hooves of the grysbok following its path thru the wilderness. Or the water from the winter rain, and melting snow – in the boggy bits a shallo...
June's Dozen for Diana 14 Jun 2013 | 03:46 pm
Of mountains and memories. Of knoffel buchu and memories of school holidays in Riversdale. Garlic buchu, dune crow-berry, lavender star bulbine variegated Plectranthus, Cape honeysuckle On my new Fa...
Cape mountain leopard 3 hours later 7 Jun 2013 | 04:32 pm
As I write Cape Town is locked in the fourth glacial cold front bringing sub-polar air from Antarctica, with freaky hail storms. Inspiring a Chip Snaddon cartoon about bi-polar bears off Cape Town. Wh...
Flower year in our Porterville garden 31 May 2013 | 04:09 pm
A map with the mediterranean areas of the world is now on my sidebar. That’s deliberately small m mediterranean. Quite implausible how widely scattered we are, and yet each scatter is sharply focused....
