A splendid spring garden - Kirstenbosch in September

I was at a meeting in Newlands yesterday morning and took the opportunity to go for a walk in Kirstenbosch. The garden was full! The car parks were full. The weather was splendid. The flowers were amazing in their colourful splash. Well worth the time spent to recreate myself.

See the panorama - nearly 180° of daisies through to brilliant vygies.

Some of the many colours of the delightfully brilliant Bokbaaivygies

Matthew's Rockery with its mass of vygies of various colours

Children enjoying the stream as our children have done on so many occasions.

And masses of daisies of various colours

And then the variety of colours in the protea section given by leaves and flower heads - Protea, Leucospermum, Leucadendron, Diastella, Faurea, etc. - and birds - interspersed with flowers from other families. Not just in the developed garden, but right up on the slopes of Table Mountain you see the yellow bracts of Leucadendron giving Fynbos one of its distinctive characters.

And then lots and lots of people enjoying Heavenly Father's creation in 'this little bit of the Garden of Eden that has remained intact' (to quote Dad Ken Powrie).

A walk in the forest

And all this so close to civilisation, yet so removed - truly rejuvenating.