The 24 hour flower and other beauties!

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Imagine opening your curtains early morning and seeing this!

Sadly this beautiful flower only lasts for one day!

The "Echinopsis" flower opened last night and tonight it will be gone, as it only lasts for 24 hours.
Today I bring you the beauty of the extravagant interspersed with the beauty of the normal.
What do I mean? Come and have a look!

This beauty below is a normal gem squash pumpkin flower!
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Unfortunately I only got 2 shots of the "Acraea hortea" butterfly on the "echinopsis" flower!
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This little beauty is a peanut bush flower!
Planted by our own squirrels.
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For real beauty it is difficult to see any other flower more beautiful than the one day echinopsis.
But then again, all flowers are beautiful!
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This is only an ordinary potato flower!
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A little bee also visited the echinopsis!
I was so hoping that a Citrus butterfly will come to sit on it!
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But the bees seem to favor the pumpkin flowers more!
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Here is that same bee inspecting the other side of the echinopsis flower!
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To live in the lee of a mountain range certainly has its benefits as far as nature is concerned.
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The promised "Lanner Falcon" post will have to wait until tomorrow, as I deemed the gift of the echinopsis flower more important!

Anything unexpectant can take place at any moment over here and one has to be watchful at all times. Not one day is the same due to the abundance of wildlife in the area.
Good news is that I have obtained a chart with the names of all the mountain peaks on it and now I can start to identify them.
My favorite is that single column next to the valley in the last picture here!

And that's All Folks!

I leave you with this!

"You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow".
Oscar de la Renta

Note: All photos are my own and taken with a Canon Powershot SX60HS camera.

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I have an app on my phone that identifies the peaks I point the phone to, but do you believe me that I haven't used it yet because I always forget that I have it? 😉

This is really a beautiful flower and it's a pity that it blooms only for such a short time, but I think the other flowers are beautiful too, even the potato flower 😁

Cheers and !BEER
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I wonder if such an app is available here in the Cape Hannes.
Marian uses the phone, but my camera has WiFi so I can load it on my camera if there is one.

I took similar flowers last year from the other flower pot and don't know if that pot will flower again this year.
Yes, the other flowers means that we will soon have our own organic vegetables 😁

Cheers and thanks!

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My app is called Peakfinder and I have no idea if it works on your camera as it needs GPS too.

Yes, your own vegetables is a good thing. I love it when we visit my parents and get our salad and other vegetables fresh from the garden.

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Ah, I think that you told me about Peakfinder before Hannes.
I will get Marian to check it out on the phone.

Especially if they are unplanned vegetables 🤣
Marian dumped the skins and pips of the vegetables there for the Robins and Thrushes to eat. The next thing that we saw was that we have a vegetable garden now.
Not in the planned garden that I cleared at the back for the vegetables.

Cheers and thanks!

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In that case you should change your plans and move the vegetable garden to their self chosen place ... or have two of them 😉

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Yes, I havve figured that and we will indeed now have two of them.
I will grow the specials at the back and let nature grow the front 🤣
No competition as one can never beat nature.

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Cool - I wonder which will taste better - the ones you wanted to grow or the ones that wanted to grow themselves ;)

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I am sure that the natural ones will taste better Hannes,
It is also a learning curve for us to see what grows here, as we then simply have to plant other variants of it. I like what they call "Hubbard Squash" pumpkin and it will grow here.
So we willl see and learn.

Cheers and thanks!

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Of course, wild grown things mostly taste better somehow - wild strawberries are just an example that came into my mind :)

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The beauty of the normal!
Squash pumpkin flower, peanut bush flower.
An ordinary potato flower.
And... the insects that visit!

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Oh yeah, thank you and I am glad that you also see it this way!

The "ordinary" that is so often overlooked by those that focus on the exotic.
I wanted to show that there's no difference and instead the "normal" serves a bettter purpose by feeding us with their fruits.

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So glad you caught that beauty! Does it have a scent?
I think all flowers are beautiful as you showed with your photos. As it is they are created to be attractive whether with colors, designs or scents.
Thanks for sharing!

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Thank you and it only has a very faint scent. I presume that is designed to keep the animals away, plus the sharp thorns at the base. Nature protects it's own, as since the butterfly and the one bee, no other inseect appeared. A real royal flower.

Yes, I wanted to show the difference with the "normal" flowers!

Blessings and !BEER

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