Category Archives: Flowers

Finding Inner Peace and Tranquility at Bodhi Khaya Retreat Centre

Posted on Thursday, 1 December 2011 by

As mentioned in an earlier post, hubby and I attended a meditation retreat at the beautiful and supremely peaceful Bodhi Khaya Retreat Centre outside the village of Stanford in the Overberg. During our 9-day retreat in early November, I took … Continue reading →

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Pollen season – and beautiful pigeons on the recently mown grass verges

Posted on Thursday, 10 November 2011 by

Haa-a-a-a-a-tchoooo!!!! Every year during springtime, there is a conflict between the local residents of Pinelands who want to keep the beautiful wild spring flowers on the grass verges flowering in our neighbourhood for as long as possible, and who thus … Continue reading →

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A Sunflower from Eseltjiesrus is surviving winter in Cape Town

Posted on Monday, 27 June 2011 by

When we visited Eseltjiesrus Donkey Sanctuary during a whirlwind week in February this year, to introduce our respective moms to our adopted Donkey, we saw that all the sunflowers outside the cute little shop were in full bloom. We picked … Continue reading →

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Spring is definitely springing!

Posted on Saturday, 4 September 2010 by

You may remember that, a month ago, our Rhus tree in the back garden was pruned very heavily. We’d been keeping a watchful eye out for new shoots, but nothing seemed to be happening, and I was starting to wonder … Continue reading →

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Our tree has been pruned again

Posted on Monday, 2 August 2010 by

We have a large and well-established Rhus tree in our back garden. Since we moved in a couple of years ago, we’ve had it pruned twice already. Each time, we feared that the pruning had been so severe that our … Continue reading →

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The strelitzias are flowering!

Posted on Tuesday, 20 April 2010 by

A couple of years ago, a friend gave us a Strelitzia reginae to celebrate our move from an apartment to a quaint little cottage with garden. I also thought it quite cute and clever that this particular species carries my … Continue reading →

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“Poor plant”: The sad tale of my African violet

Posted on Saturday, 17 April 2010 by

“Poor plant,” declared hubby, when he saw this picture. African violets are among the toughest of houseplants you can get. They don’t need a lot of water, they prefer very little direct sunlight, and they are very easy to propagate: … Continue reading →

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And kaleidoscope fun with a hibiscus blossom

Posted on Sunday, 28 March 2010 by

For this third set of kaleidoscope images, I used this simple hibiscus blossom as the basis. I find these images absolutely extraordinary. By tweaking seven parameters (horizontal offset, vertical offset, rotation angle, scale factor, number of petals, number of orbits, … Continue reading →

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Kaleidoscope fun with a pink lobelia

Posted on Sunday, 28 March 2010 by

This is a pretty pink lobelia. And these are some of the amazing kaleidoscope images you can get by playing around with image processing software:

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Kaleidoscope fun with a gazania

Posted on Sunday, 28 March 2010 by

This is an orange gazania. And this is what happens when you play around with the kaleidoscope function on the image processing software. Awesome, isn’t it?

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