Big city buzz is fabulous – in small doses. Small towns stole my heart a long time ago. Road trips through South Africa over many
Tag: Flowers
Eight things I love about Rhodes Village
The road has led me to Rhodes Village in the Eastern Cape Highlands and I’m slowly getting to savour the gems in this Southern Drakensberg
My top tips for chasing flowers
The flowers are fading, pulling on their seedy caps to sleep for another year. After a prolonged drought, it has been a magnificent year for
Taking a walk with Nomama Mei
Nomama Mei and I are walking, and talking, along the shore of the Kwelera Nature Reserve, now part of the new Kwelera National Botanical Garden.
Jewels of the bush
Not long after we moved to East London, I found myself wending my car along a dusty farm track. I was searching for a nursery
The colour orange
One of the things I love about living in my part of this part of the world is that there is always something to make
Beauty behind the beasty thorns
Collecting plants was never intentional, but I guess it’s the kind of gardener I turned out to be. In fact, the collecting itch is as
Sun is shining
Today, the sun made a brief appearance before the rain came down again. But I picked some flowers – strelitzia and other pretty things –