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Some More South-Africa
I wrote about my trip to South Africa in October earlier. I posted most of my decent horizontal shots (I actually take a lot more vertical shots, they just don’t look as good on the blog), but a certain part got left out, what I could call “random roses” and a few other pics. I’m a member of the Finnish Rose Society and I am interested in roses, but not in the same way the most devoted enthusiast are, I really could not even be: I am more or less equally interested in so many other aspects of gardening as well and time would just run out. That said, I’m…
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Around the Cape
This wasn’t an unusual tree, but it wasn’t in the one book I bought at Kirstenbosch. Edit: It’s some type of Callistemon. South Africa is a society with a lot of fences and barbed wire. “Friendly” barbed wire. Nasturtiums are weeds. The old graveyard at Robben Island. Large Agaves Nelson Mandela had a garden at Robben Island. The Plumbago grew really vigourously. The calla lily, Zantedeschia aethiopica was thriving as well.
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Kirstenbosch
Leucospermum reflexum – most likely – todennäköisesti – antagligen Streliziae ’ Mandela’s Gold’, Plantworld actually stocks seeds for it. More pincushion flowers, there were all imaginable shades of yellow, orange and red. A mountain dahlia, Liparia splendens. Lots of Geraniums. I’ll add a few pictures from other places around the Cape tomorrow. Lisään muutaman kuvan lisää Kapkaupungin ympäristöstä huomenna. Jag lägger upp lite fler bilder från Kapstadens omgivningar imorgon.
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Comfort in the Cold (-9°C/16°F outside right now)
Like many gardening professionals my summers can be very work filled and taking time off has to be deterred. This summer I actually had some free time in July, but most of it had to be put for a later date. Some of that I spent in October when I took a trip with some friends to see another friend who was working in Cape Town. South Africa was one of those places that I wanted to visit some day, but unless my friend would have been working there I don’t think it would have happened so soon. Flying there was expensive and took 16 hours, but besides the flight…
