Darling is a small town near the West Coast of the Cape on the sandveldt. It is famous for its wild flowers, and the Wild Flower Society, and for its wild flower show.The society is very popular, and this is encouraged by the Presbyterin minister and the Dominie, often from the pulpit. It was from here that Hildagonda Ducket introduced Nemesias to the world.
This is the Presbyterian church (picture courtesy Albert Geldenhuys)
We were too late for the flower show and the flowers were going over, but we found enough to enjoy. On the way we found an abundance of flowers at the road side.
Above Gladiolus alatus, or Kalkoentjies.
A Babiana.
A delicate Lachenalia.
I didn't have a name for this flower.
We found a farmer's field, barren, but full of wild life.
Yes, the colours are real. Rather than a very a similar Geissorhiza, the ribbed leaves, and the lack of a white ring make this Babiana rubrocyanaea.It is endemic to this part of the Cape. I call them Wynkoppies (wine cups), but apparantly this name is reserved for the Geissorhiza.
In the field there was a mass migration of Whites (butterflies.) Also many of these butterflies, the Boland Brown. They also are endemic to the South west of the Cape.
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