JANUARY
Bulbine frutescens - this flowers for most months of the year, but I really appreciate it in January when little else can survive the scorching heat.
FEBRUARY
The delicate flowers of the Indigofera jucunda are almost at an end, they start flowering in December, filling the tree with a mass of tiny blooms.
MARCH
Miribilis jalapa - this will probably be the last alien I remove from my indigenous garden - if ever. These wonderful water-wise flowers start springing up in November. providing interesting colour right through till May, then they obligingly die back allowing my indigenous beauties to shine.
APRIL
Asystasia gangetica - really useful ground cover that flowers throughout spring and summer
MAY
Strelitzia reginae - showing off it's striking blooms.
JUNE
You know it's winter when Aponogeton distachyos start to flower - beautiful and you can eat them too!
JULY
Can't beat Gazania's for winter colour
AUGUST
Stunning display from Sutherlandia frutescens tells me that spring is not far away.
SEPTEMBER
Hard to choose in my favourite month of the year, but this pelargonium never fails to delight.
OCTOBER
Watsonia borbonica - my favourite spring bulb.
NOVEMBER
Can't help but be impressed by this King Protea - the size of my head. This was taken in Helderberg Nature Reserve
DECEMBER
Crassula coccinea putting on a dazzling Christmas display.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
