Flowering Month: September
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Kniphofia uvaria
Posted on This is an evergreen, herbaceous perennial with strap-like leaves growing from rhizomes. It bears a roundish spike of tubular orange or yellow flowers which are borne on a tall stem. Read more » -
Kniphofia praecox
Posted on This rhizomatous perennial is clump forming and can reach 1.2m in height. The leaves are strap-shape and the margins are finely serrated. The flowers appear in cylindrical racemes, reddish in colour. The closely packed flower-buds attract Read more » -
Kalanchoe beharensis
Posted on This succulent plant is originally from Madagascar. It has thick, curving, triangular to lanceolate velvety leaves covered in brown hairs. The flowers are carried a tall inflorescences with clusters of urn-shaped, red / orange, pinkish flowers that are violet on... Read more » -
Indigofera stricta
Posted on This erect or scrambling resprouting shrub can grow to 1.2m. It has angular stems which are ribbed. The leaves, which are densely hairy beneath are arranged on either side of the stem and carried on small stalks. The dainty little... Read more » -
Hibiscus trionum
Posted on Not listed in NEMBA legislation, however it is a troublesome weed smothering other natural vegetation. This stiffly hairy annual was introduced from the Old World tropics and now widespread in southern Africa. The leaves are lobed or toothed. The showy... Read more » -
Hermannia hyssopifolia
Posted on This stiffly erect rounded shrub that can be as small as 300mm but also up to 2m. The new stems are purple and hairy while the older stems are reddish. The flowers have an inflated balloon-like calyx with the tips... Read more » -
Heliophila subulata
Posted on This is a minutely hairy, annual or perennial shrublet with leathery, linear to lanceolate leaves. The stems are green or purple with narrow leaves that taper from a narrow base to a very fine point. The delicate flowers are purple... Read more » -
Helichrysum teretifolium
Posted on Straggling shrublet with leaves hooked at tips, more or less hairless above but white-woolly beneath. The flowerheads appear in dense flat-topped clusters, without ray florets, surrounded by creamy white papery bracts that spread at the tips. Read more » -
Helichrysum dasyanthum
Posted on This is a small, erect multi-stemmed spreading shrub. The thin stems are covered with fine, long greyish white hairs that extend to the leaves. Many flowers are arranged at the tip of the stem making it look like one large... Read more »