Looks like Spring in Fall at Hyrons Landing.

Came home from South Africa to an equally pretty picture.

Proteas at Kirstenbosch Gardens - more photos can be seen at www.tamsinandcooke.blogspot.com

Phylica pubescens veerkoppie Featherhead.

Giant King Protea - The National Flower of South Africa

Leucospemum cordifolium 'caroline'

leucospernum reflexum var. luteum

Proteas like hot dry summers; wet mild winters and have long tap roots to search deep into the earths surface for water with leathery tough leaves to avoid moisture loss.

Kirstenbosch Gardens Cape Town

Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens is the only botanical garden in the world that is included in a UNESCO World Heritage site. Located on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain in Cape Town, the gardens were established in 1913 and are devoted to indegenous flora.

Cape Daisies - Dimorphotheca Pluvialis


Clivia miniata var. citrina

More Cape Daisies - blue variety

More Cape Daisies - the Octotus variety

NIght Blooming Cereus

Just look what a professional photographer can do to one of the most beautiful flowers .

You can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the girl.

Installing the water feature at CMLC .

Silpada Party

Just agreed to have a Silpada party with proceeds going to The Flat Rock Playhouse so we can go hog-wild with either a tri-color beech or hire weeders.
Keep tuned for this exciting event .

A wonderful work day - 19 of us.-

Lychnis Coronaria and ox-eyed daisies

Refreshing refreshments - Ice cold watermelon and elderflower fizz Marylou and Ann painstakingly tend the moss gardens.

Tamsin and Barbara discuss the need for a tall white flowering plant.

Sandra's weed - can it get any bigger?

Our very own roses come into their own prime time and 'Smiling Jean' does just that.

Our lavendar beds in full flower

Everyone at The Playhouse has a favourite plant, but Dennis Maulden has two . Oakleaf Hydrangea and Roseanne Geranium.