It begins with the outliers. Small, sneaky, they hide behind bigger bushes or wedge themselves onto cliff-faces, surveying the landscape with the rapacious eye of a thin-ribbed colonialist. As your descent from the high ground continues, larger, long-limbed gangs of...

“Wait a minute,” I hear savvy locals say. “The hidden gems of Elands’ Pass? Isn’t that where the N2 highway runs over those mountains near Cape Town? Do you mean Sir Lowry’s Pass? One of the busiest bits of road in the province?” Yes I do. It may be called Sir Lowry’s...

You know me and my boasting: “Table Mountain has more plant species than Sweden!” “There are 175 times more heathers in fynbos than in Scotland!!” But a thought occurred to me and probably to you too: How? How come there is so much floral diversity in fynbos. And...