A SHORT JOURNEY INTO DULLSTROOM MPUMALANGA

 Brunsvigia, Dullstroom, Mpumalanga 2021Brunsvigia, Dullstroom, Mpumalanga 2021Please have a look at my GALLERY page for a number of images of Dullstroom, Mpumalanga. That visit of me and my wife during February 2021 was rather eventful in that I still have living proof of our visit there: plants that I cultivated! Eucomis and brunsvigia. The eucomis was familiar to me because I have some in my garden - the story of those plants are below. BRUNSVIGIABrunsvigia?...

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THINKING BACK TO MY VERY EARLY CHILDHOOD WHILE I AM SITTING IN MY SPECIAL GARDEN

Lush green fern - as a child we never had ferns like these Gardens and steam trains. I grew up with steam trains. But not with gardens. I think we were too poor to have a garden - I mean a big, lush garden overflowing with beautiful scented flowers and exotic plants. We didn't even have friends with that type of garden. Do I regret it? No - absolutely not. I grew up with steam trains fired up with coal. You could see the smouldering coal inside...

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