Melville Koppies is pristine; or so we thought until a splash of white litter was spotted under a tree. I went stomping across the veld armed with a litter bag. My outrage turned to sheer delight when I saw that the litter was actually a huge clump of White Paintbrush (Haemanthus humilis) nestling under a Dombeya rotundifolia (Wild Pear) and protected by rocks, a Pavetta gardeniifolia (Bride’s bush) and a Diospyros lycioides (Bloubos). The Haemanthus is usually found in small groups of one or two in the crevices of rocks. The ‘litter’ clump on the Koppies consisted of 77 blooms. It was an added pleasure to watch the expressions of flower-fundi friends that I took to see the spectacle.Melville Koppies always produces something special.
The photograph does not do justice to the sheer beauty of these blooms. They were tucked into every corner of the site
Karen Carstens, Melville Koppies
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