Mother of Pearl

Common Mother of Pearl on Begonia leaf

Stolen cutting

Plectanthrus - not sure which one - took illegal cutting from Drak sun and was flowering within 2 months!

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Aloes in bloom - aerial view

Aerial view of my flowering Aloes

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Another beautiful winter flowering plant. The soft delicate lilacy flowers of the Tetradenia riparia or as it is known to the Africans - Iboza. Lovely, just pick leaves, tear and throw into bath to relieve sore muscles, also used in traditional medicine as an inhalation to cure head colds!! 

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Eugenia capensis

Juicy berries from Eugenia capensis - the branches of this tree were hanging so low with this heavy laden fruit, the vervet monkeys just devoured them.

Dermatobotrys saundersii

Dermatobotrys saundersii - Tree jockey.
This plant belongs to the Snapdragon family. It is an Epiphytic forest shrub,  fairly rare and not that easy to grow. Iv'e had this one for 2 years now and there are times when it really appears to be dead, then all of a sudden a few leaves and these little orange tubular flowers that last about 10 days, then these hard scaly dark berries appear - you can see them in the background on the left. A really strange unpredictable plant!!

Leonotis leonorus

I don't have much sun in my garden so this was a lovely surprise - Leonotis leonorus (wild dagga) with it's fire orange flowers.

Rose Quartz

These Plectranthus have just flourished with the pieces of Rose Quartz placed around them.