Waylands Private Wildflower Reserve
This is a private reserve owned and managed by John Duckitt for flowers.
"The Waylands wild flower reserve was started by Frederick Duckitt in the early 1900’s. Visitors have been allowed access to the spectacular spring display of approx 300 species of wild flowers every season since then. The road allowing visitors to drive through the reserve was built in 1938 by Wilferd Duckitt. The wild flowers are at their best from about the last week of August to the end of September, with the peak being in the first 2 weeks of September.
The Wild flower reserve forms a part of the critically endangered Lowland Fynbos Biome of which less than 1% of the original remains.
The flower reserve forms an integral part of Waylands’ farming activities, and is actively grazed by cattle and sheep from the time the seed has set in late November to the end of April before winter sets in. This grazing strategy has been used by the local inhabitants of the Cape since time immemorial, and we have found that this practice, which allows the animals to actively spread the seed, in addition to occasional autumn burning of the veld every 15 years, is imperative in promoting the growth of the wild flowers.
Waylands has porcupines, caraculs, wild cats, genets, mongoose, red meerkats, bat eared foxes, Cape silver foxes, honey badgers, steen bok, duikers, Cape clawless otters, and many more.
Waylands has an abundance of bird species. Many of them can be seen from the garden, at one of the two dams or in the wild flower reserve. We also have many birds nesting on Waylands from the small Paradise Fly Catcher to the larger Secretary bird. Some of the rarer birds also often make an appearance like a fish eagle feasting on fish caught in the dam."
Extracted from http://www.waylands.co.za/the-farm/
Nodes
Ixia maculata
Corycium orobanchoides
Sparaxis bulbifera
Drosera cistiflora
Lapeirousia jacquinii
Heliophila coronopifolia
Moraea tricolor
Geissorhiza monanthos
Sparaxis bulbifera
Taxonomy term
Euphorbia
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Gk. eu- = well; phorbe = pasture or fodder; probably after Euphorbus, Greek physician to Juba II, King of Mauretania. Juba was educated in Rome and married the daughter of Antony and Cleopatra. He was apparently interested in botany and had written about an African cactus-like plant from the slopes of Mount Atlas, which he had found or knew about, which was used as a powerful laxative. That plant may have been Euphorbia resinifera, and like all Euphorbias had a latexy exudate (milky emulsion from certain plants). Euphorbus had a brother named Antonius Musa who was the physician to Augustus Caesar in Rome. When Juba heard that Caesar had honoured his physician with a statue, he decided to honour his own physician by naming the plant he had written about after him.
Geissorhiza ornithogaloides
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Resembling members of the chinkerinchee, Genus Ornithogalum (Hyacinthaceae)
Ixia maculata
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From the Latin maculatus = 'spotted', 'stained' or 'blotched'
Lachenalia hirta
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From the Latin hirtus = 'hairy' and flora = 'flower'
Lachenalia unifolia
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Means having a single leaf
Pelargonium myrrhifolium
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From the Greek ‘myrrhi’ / ‘myrrhis’ meaning ‘myrrh’; and the Latin ‘folium’ / ‘folium’ meaning ‘leaf’.
Romulea hirsuta
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From the Latin hirsutus = ‘hairy’
Cormous geophyte, 6--10 cm, corms symmetrical, bell-shaped, stem branching above ground. Basal leaves 2, sometimes solitary. Flowers pink to rose or coppery orange with dark marks at edge of yellow cup. Aug.--Sept. Sandstone or clay slopes and flats, NW, SW (Clanwilliam to Elim).
Romulea rosea
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From the Latin roseus = ‘rose-coloured’ or 'red'
Spiloxene serrata
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From the Latin serratus = ‘serrated’ or 'saw-toothed'. Each tooth is angled more on one side than the other (forward pointing) as compared with dentate which is equally angled on both sides forming triangular teeth.
Tripteris clandestina
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From the Latin ‘clandestina’ / ‘clandestinus’ meaning ‘secret’
Ursinia
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Named in honour of Johann Ursinus of Regensburg, the author of Arboretum Biblicum. Sphenogyne R.Br. is not considered separable.