In My Garden: it’s Springtime in the South

September is Springtime down here at the very tip of Africa. Been hanging out in my garden a lot, enjoying the slow shedding of the last bits of winter, and the happy signs of summer popping up everywhere:

Beautiful Indigenous Clivias: happiest in the cool of the shade

Potted Strawberry in flower: always worth the wait…..

From the lemon tree, up a slope full of shrubs and succulents, to the cottage-on-stilts behind…..

These two little eggs belong to a family of Cape Robins who set up nest in our garden shed a few weeks ago!

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  Strelizia, aka Bird of Paradise flower. Most variants have an orange headed flower. This beauty, from the Mandela’s Gold variant, is golden yellow with touches of blue.

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Cape Gooseberries: Sweetly tart and delicious….

Apple blossoms with backdrop of leafy green almond tree

Bulbanella succulent surrounded by ornamental grasses.
The leaf of the plant exudes a gel with many skin healing properties.

And more……

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  Pear tree coming into bloom

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  Lemon with blossom

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  Lobelia flowers

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  Granadilla (Passion fruit)

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  A small oasis for thirsty birds

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  Happy just hanging here….

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  Calamondin fruit and flowers
  

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  Sweet Rocket and Violas

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  Last of the winter spinach

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  Baby almonds inside velvety husks

And so turn the seasons! wishing you all a beautiful week ♥