If it’s Tuesday, it must be ‘walk with Jackie’ day
Different photographs this time .. mainly indigenous trees which are scattered about the park …
Cabbage Tree ( Cussionia paniculata) – slender with leaves bunched at the top …
They usually branch out from the bottom …
Odd looking but are magnificent specimens when they’re mature .. all these are still young
I’m not clued up on indigenous plant names .. a low growing aloe (that’s all I know about this one) .. 🙂 !!
Remember the ‘smiley’ tree from a previous post … this is inside the ‘mouth’ ! …
Dead flower on a protea tree (I know it as the Sugar Bush) …
When we lived adjoining this area, my Mum (during visits from Zimbabwe) used to always pick bunches of these dead flowers for dry arrangements in my house …
I am also clueless on the majority of indigenous tree names. There is a quite variety in this park …
This one could be an olive, but there again, it may not be 🙂 I had an indigenous olive years ago planted near the pool but took it out once I realised how messy they were, after a visit to Walter Sisululu Botanical Gardens where there indigenous selection of trees is vast ..
I know this is an acacia of sorts ..
Loerie Park must have Grey Loeries !!!! I haven’t seen or heard them yet until today .. there was a flock of them flying around and calling each other with their familiar ‘Go away’ calls, but I could only capture this lone one in the half dead tree (civilization is beyond that fence !!) .. When we were children, we only knew them as ‘go-away’ birds (they are common in Zimbabwe too)
… and this pair sitting at the top of a tree and squawking to their fellow feathered friends …
2 Replies to “If it’s Tuesday, it must be ‘walk with Jackie’ day”
looks like a great place to walk…love all the trees.
Looking at most of the pictures you wouldn’t say its right in the middle of the city. More like in the veld somewhere