Visiting to Kirstenbosch

The weather has been really nice last 3 days- and also quite warm. FINALLY! I am craving a trip up the Westcoast, one to the Overberg and one down to the Gardenroute,well i am craving a trip into any kind of countryside around Cape Town. Problem being that each these trips are at least a whole day trip ( and that is squeezing it!) and I simply haven't had the time to do that.
So today I went to Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. A mini country trip. I now live in the City- before we moved here, we stayed in a house in the leafy suburb of Fernwood, 100m from the gardens. So I spent a lot of time in the gardens since we moved to South Africa. Its a fantastic place to just chill, go for picnic, read a book, sketch,have tea or lunch in one of the restaurants, or go for a walk up table mountain and obviously to look at the beautiful flowers and plants of South Africa. All plants (with exception of a few camphor trees, a couple of palm trees and all the oaks in it) are indigenous. Being from Switzerland this incredibly rich fauna never seizes to amaze me and I always find something interesting and new. I went on photo tour- so I am (and only once) apologizing before hand and warn you. This might bore you! I took lots of photos, and feel inspired- maybe I'm even getting another obsession?
Anyhow; I will post the photos of the spring in Cape Town over the next few days

Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens

Just look at all this purple!

The cycades

more spring flowers

Bird of Paradise