Today is a very special Fynbos Friday. It is the 52nd one, a year into doing this and we have commissioned a special guest post from Anne Armstrong, matriarch here on our “little slice of heaven” in Franschhoek. Mom is a huge part in everyone’s lives and she chose not one species to talk about, [...]
Fynbos Friday 51: Protea Nerifolia
Fynbos Friday is a little late today as I have been travelling around the world and flights were delayed and internet scarce on the return journey. Interestingly enough, I came across a farmers market in Waimea on the Big Island of Hawaii about 3 weeks ago which had a variety of Protea for sale. It [...]
Fynbos Friday 50: Strelitzia reginae
I often get questioned about this very beautiful and easily recognisable flower, whether it is actually part of the Fynbos on our Biodiversity walks. As it is planted in a very neat clump or stand just outside my Moms garage, it does look like it could potentially be an outsider, but it is actually indigenous [...]
Fynbos Friday 49: Cape Sugarbird
Fynbos Fridays are often dominated by the Flora of the ecosystem, but we have had snippets of a few of our non- plant related members of the Fynbos biome, such as the Caracal, the Red Rock Rabbits, and a few snakes here or there, one or two of Eric’s mates, the Baboons and my photographic [...]
Fynbos Friday 48: Serruria gracilis
We have written a few posts before about the Serruria before, however to my own shock and horror it has never been a Fynbos Friday before. So here it is, commonly known as the Graceful spiderhead; we are coming into flowering time again for the Serruria gracilis. One of my favourites, this has an intensely [...]
Fynbos Friday 47: Alien Vegetation control
Now there is no myth to the numerous discussions flying around about braai wood. And since I do consider myself somewhat of an aficionado when it comes to the abovementioned cooking technique, I have tried and tested a wide variety of forms of fuel. We have had a few barrels that have gone past there [...]
Fynbos Friday 45: Lachenalia
These wonderful little hyacinths are always a pleasure to come across in the Fynbos. They are extremely delicate little flowers and are incredibly difficult to spot. Along with their difficulty to find in patches of think Fynbos, comes the difficulty to identify…please pop across to Wikipedia for a look at how many different species there [...]
Fynbos Friday 44: Reflection
It will be Fynbos Fridays one year birthday soon, so in ten weeks time we are planning something very special for the farm and our Fynbos Friday posts. It will be a post steered completely by you. Over the next few weeks it would be great if you, our loyal followers, on any platform, Twitter, [...]
Fynbos Friday 43: Tecoma Capensis
The Cape Honeysuckle was one of those Fynbos plants that really got its hooks stuck into me when it came to the propagation side of Fynbos and really was one of the first plants I had any success with in our nursery. They are pretty bulletproof so they managed to pull through my early and [...]
Fynbos Friday 42: The Caracal or Rooikat
Tuesday started off with a pretty exciting phone call from Pat who is based at the Jonkershoek Cape Nature Conservation offices, who asked if we would be happy to have a Caracal released on Haut Espoir which had been trapped on a neighbouring farm the previous night. Of course, we would be thrilled to have [...]
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