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Elephant's Eye on False Bay
gardening for biodiversity on False Bay, Cape Town, South Africa. Fynbos on the mountain slopes around suburbia. Long summers and wet winters in our mediterranean climate.
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by Diana Studer - gardening for biodiversity in Cape Town, South Africa Between catching up with my iNaturalist backlog and this week's elections, not much gardening done. My bird has been framed in 'weathered denim' to sing with his blue-grey square ( reduction linocut ). Cape robin-chat Red-wing starlings flocking to Searsia crenata berries - which are falling to the path as they dry out. Red-wing starlings Bunch of bananas still startles us when we look that way! Bananas For Through the Garden Gate Down by the Sea in Dorset with Sarah. My camera skills don't capture what my merely human eye does. Waves of purples and a little white. Mother plant and finally a white seedling (hidden away behind the lemon tree) to nurture in a more visible place. Cornish Stripe in purples For the bluer - Barleria obtusa . White mother Hypoestes aristata . Self-seeded purples vary, more pink, more purple, lighter or darker. Purples for C
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March Fynbos Rambles to Silvermine and Smitswinkel Bay
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April and our False Bay garden with CNC and FIRES!
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February hikes to Cecilia Forest, Slangkop, to Blackburn Ravine and Elsie's Peak
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