Brunsvigia orientalis

[Heinie]

My first Brunsvigia orientalis starting to open her flowers for the season

[daveyp1970]

As outstanding a plant that is Heinie the swimming pool with that sky and that garden with that plant WOW.Incredible!

[angie]

I can't add anything more than Dave has said but maybe a bigger WOW for the blue sky.

Angie

[Heinie]

Angie and Dave,

Thank you for the kind compliments on a beautiful Cape Town. The next photo is a bonus for you of our proud mountain in the back ground if you would turn a little towards the right of the photo with the Brunsvigia.



And a little further to the right is Robben Island in the sea where Mr Nelson Mandela was held as a prisoner.

[daveyp1970]

Just incredible,is that where Disa Uniflora grows Heinie?,is that Table mountain? it just is breath taking and hopefully in the future a place i will be visiting.

[Maggi Young]

That is one hell of a view you have, Heinie.

I find the red pedicels of the Brunsvigia orientalis, so nicely matching the flower colour to be a major wow factor in this flower.... shapely and so red..... designer florals!

[Heinie]

Dave,
Yes, that is Table Mountain. There is a cable car that takes you up to the mountain top. You can notice the cable car station at the top of the mountain. It is the little bump on the extreme right of the mountain top.

Maggie,
I assume that you may know what I am going to tell you now but I do so for the benefit of members that is not familiar with this type of plant. The red colour remains until the flower was pollinated when the pedicels start extending to more than double the length and the seeds start growing.

The red parts turns brown and dries out when the seeds are mature then the thick scape is also dry and it breaks off and the dry head is rolled around by the wind and the seed capsules break open and the seeds are spread all over the ground many meters from the plant. Brunsvigia and Boophone have this same manner in which seeds are spread. I harvested one of my Boophone haemanthoides plant's seeds this morning. The dry head has a diameter of about 500mm.  Nature is so clever. 

[Maggi Young]

Nature is so clever.

She certainly is!
 Great explanation of the process the flower head undergoes, Heinie, thanks. 

[angie]

Table mountain is so recognisable.
Wish my Boophane bulb would grow. Ever since I planted it bulb upside down in the pot nothing has happened. Well that's a lie the bulb has got smaller.

Angie

[Paul T]

Angie,

Well the Boophane does come from the other side of the world, so perhaps upside down suits it more? 

Heinie,

Stunning pics.  The contrasts in your first pics are so strong, and as soon as I saw it I thought that you'd have the snow-locked northern hemisphere readers totally jealous!! 

[angie]

Angie,

Well the Boophane does come from the other side of the world, so perhaps upside down suits it more? 

Paul I was thinking of hanging it upside down. 

Angie

[George-Oz]

Wow Heinie, Dave and Angie said it all...  What a Beauty. wow...

[Alessandro.marinello]

Heinie
now you are exaggerating

[Heinie]

Alessandro,

Exaggerating with what Sir? Is there anything I have to prove with a photo perhaps?

[Maggi Young]

Alessandro,

Exaggerating with what Sir? Is there anything I have to prove with a photo perhaps?

 I think Alessandro means "boasting" not exaggerrating, Heinei.... teasing you about your view!