The Gemsbok Graveyard!

[Bertie Horak]

Ok Mike, you asked for it!  Let this botanist give you some homework to do:

Go google the following names or look it up in any gardening book

1. Ipomoea indica (or Ipomoea purpurea)                 - this is Morning Glory
2. Saintpaulia magungensis (or Saintpaulia ionantha)  - this is African Violet

Now don't let the girls do all the work, I'll ask them!

[Michael Alexander]

When I look at both of these pics, they both are not the same ones we had..... I have a photograph of the front of our house with those blerrie flowers... I will seek, scan and submit for your exper approval........     grab

[Bertie Horak]

That was quick, Mike! 10% bonus for dedication!
Ok, I'll check in early tomorrow morning again.  Now I'm curious about what you had in the garden!
Early night for me - a little bushed tonight.

[Cherry (Alcock)]

Not a Wisteria Mike?  There were some really green fingered peeps in Ormd who managed to grow this creeper but a photo would be nice!

[SandyB]

I got huge Wisteria in my garden  just looks  after itself .. ..  Morning glory can also get onto wall if it get a foothold on a rafter ..  I recall qhite a few homes had morning glory  growing as well ..

[Bertie Horak]

Cherry might be right.  I remember some Wisteria's in Oranjemund.  Bunches of aromatic purple flowers hung over the fence in the "gangetjie" in 11th avenue (must've been the eastern fence of E6/11, or the house behind them).  Let's wait for Mike's picture, then we'll know!

[SandyB]

If its wisteria then its in winter phase ... mine dead  and bare at the moment .. trivia .. apparently wisteria from china and japan differ in the direction of  the twist of the branches ??

[Bertie Horak]

You're right, Sandy.  Should flower soon, usually surprises you and when it decides to flower it really moves.  Regarding the twisting of creepers ...  Just like water swirls in different directions when bath is emptied in Southern and Northern hemispheres!  All to do with the spinning of this big marble we're staying on.

[Jean]

Mike, was it a beaugonvilla (sp??) - we had one growing up a trellis in the front of our house in 9the avenue and it grows fairly aggressively. If you don't cut it back, it will go wild!  I also have a pic of it in our garden - will see if I can find it and scan it in.

[Bertie Horak]

@ Jean - Aah, another purple possibility!  The plot thickens!  We'll have to wait for Mike's pic to know what the mystery plant is.  Let's see?

[Jean]

Here's the pic of our beaugonvilla in our garden in 9th avenue.  First pic when we'd just planted it (with Uncle Paul - Pepe -pulling a funny face) and the second pic a few years on (with me and my tennis trophies  ).  Is it the beaugonvilla Mike?  Very thorny too, those plants!!

[Jean]

Oops - here are the pics!!

[Michael Alexander]

In sheer amazement I dug through my old pics last night, and found the photo, much to my embarrasment( Yeah! Like i get shy!) ...... there was a creeper, but it was not the flowering type, I will post a pic 2morrow.... then we can discuss what type of creeper.... it was...

[Bertie Horak]

Oh, so we saw flowers where there was none? Uh-hum. Explain, please.....

[Rhona]

I just knew there wasn't purple flowers creeping along the wall at your house Mike....