Yes, there is more…..you must imagine my delight as after those recent rains, almost everywhere you turned in the bush, along the edges of driveways and roads, there were just more and more little beauties if you took a close-up look…
So following on from Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5, here are still more 'flora' wonders!
…and yes still all within a couple hundred meters of our house!
This is called a Gisekia in English or a motlhabana in Setswana - it has a traditional superstition that unmarried women shouldn't grow or cut the plant or it could ruin their chances of finding the right husband!
This is a kind of foxglove or wild seseme
This next one is such a pretty little bush only about 30cm high, with tiny, white, white flowers, no bigger than a fingernail. It's called the 'White cat's paws' but has no Setswana name listed and no known uses listed - I wonder what uses God wants us to still discover about this plant!
and up really close!
and here is the Botswana Marigold
- which although pretty, is not all good as it is highly toxic to sheep!!
So if I ever get a real live sheep (in addition to all the other non-live versions around our house!), I'll have to make sure all these are removed!
and lastly for now, with flowers less than half the size of my pinkie fingernail is the Spindle Flower, or the Thepe in Setswana or botanically the Cleome monophylla
and really close up!..so elegant.
And no, I haven't yet finished showing you all the bush beauties around the area of where I live, so keep watching!
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