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| Marcel and Sylvie on the Garden Route 2018 |
Hi, the Botanists!
We are a couple of French retired teachers (me : French and English, my husband : Physics and Chemistry) travelling in distant countries to avoid the European winter and take the opportunity of discovering new people, new cultures and new landscapes.
We love travelling but also nature and plants, especially cacti and succulents.
I have always lived with plants as a child, my mother being crazy for gardening, cacti and succulents.
Then, our son then 13 fell in love with these plants. So, every time we travelled, we took the opportunity of observing and taking pictures of as many as we could .
At home, he grew plants and now that he lives 9000kms from us (in La Réunion island), we are in charge of a part of his cacti and succulents so now we have a nice collection of them at home in France ( south Burgundy)
We love looking for plants in the countries we visit, not only yours, but Mexico as well (cacti) : this gives us a goal when walking and an opportunity of enjoying various landscapes.
We travelled twice in South Africa : from mid-January to mid-March 2017
and from mid-January to mid-march 2018
this is to avoid the european winter!
We will stay in your country again from mid-January to mid-march 2020.
We organize our trips ourselves, planning a circuit, booking accommodation at people's homes and hiring a car (a small car only is affordable for us for 2 months)
We would enjoy roaming the countryside with you , looking for plants and learning more.
That would also give us the opportunity of exchanging with you.
We make it very clear that we are not interested in collecting plants
but we would enjoy an opportunity to go walking with
knowledgeable people and perhaps you could recommend
a safe place for us to walk : we are aware that there is a lot of concern
about the illegal collecting of succulents at the moment.
We are only amateurs but I can say we are quite proud of the specimens we saw in the different regions of South-Africa we visited.
You can have a look at our blogs :
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| we live in a village 4 kms from Mâcon |
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| our house under the arrow |
You can see photos of our plants at home, in summer outside, in autumn, winter and spring in the conservatory or greenhouse.
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| cacti and succulents |
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| some bulbs |
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| cacti and aloe |
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| cacti |
Here are two maps so that you can see where the plants below were sighted.
I hope I can remember the names (without too many errors) and the locations for each plant!
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| 2017 |
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| 2018 |
We met one of your botanists Petra Broddle from the Blaauwberg CREW group through some friends of ours in France and she kindly showed us the
flora around Cape Town (Lion's head, Blauberg and Silvermine.
We are still in touch and as I wondered
if we could join a team during our stay, she provided us with a lists
of contacts of CREW.
We chose to contact those among you who
are responsible for a zone we are supposed to stay in.
This is what our circuit looks like :
We booked a week in Muizenberg, then we go to Langerbann,
then Springbok,then the Namibian border, Upington , Karoo , then the Indian ocean coast and
back to Cape town.
Here
are a few plants we saw during our trips in 2017 and 2018 (the location may not be always exact)
Blaauwberg, with Petra Broddle from Blaauwberg CREW :
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| Viscum capense |
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| Limonium peregrinum |
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| Euphorbia caput medusae |
Coffee Bay:
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| Aloe ferox |
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| Aloe sp. |
Atantic coast : Lamberts Bay
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| Euphorbia schoenlandii |
Indian ocean coast : Tsisikamma:
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| Brunsvigia |
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| ? |
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| Helichrysum? |
Eastern Cape:
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| Euphorbia triangularis |
Johannesburg : Klipriviersberg :
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| Boophone |
Karoo : Outshoorn
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| Tylecodon walichii |
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| Cotyledon |
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| Cotyledon |
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| ? |
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| front : Cotyledon/Tylecodon? back : Aloe marlotii |
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| Euphorbia |
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| Crassula |
Montagu:
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| Tylecodon paniculatus |
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| Gasteria |
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| Crassula? |
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| Euphorbia clandestina |
Mossel Bay:
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| Euphorbia |
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| Erica |
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| Protea |
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| Cyrtanthus contractus |
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| ? |
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| ? |
Outeniqua pass:
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| Aloes |
Plettenberg or Cape Saint Francis
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| Scadoxus puniceus |
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| Crassula |
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| ? |
Rustenberg :
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| Aloe |
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| Poison Apple |
Springbok :
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| Aloe dichotoma |
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| Ephorbia tirucalli |
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| Dactylopsis digitata |
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| ? |
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| Dactylopsis digitata |
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| Dactylopsis ? |
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| Tylecodon |
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| ? |
Sutherland :
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| Faucaria (Mesembryanthemaceae) |
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| Faucaria |
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| ? |
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| Faucaria |
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| Aloe |
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| Crassula ovata |
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| Euphorbia truncata |
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| Euphorbia |
Molteno pass :
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| Mesembryanthemaceae |
Table mountain :
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| Crassula coccinea |
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| red Disa |
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| King Protea |
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| Erica |
Upington:
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| ? |
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| Hoodia Gordonii |
I hope this helps you understand what sort of plants we like, and please correct the errors I made.
You can leave a commentary , if you don't have a gmail account, you can do it in "Anonymous".
I hope we can share our passion with you next winter.
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