Meadowridge Common

Glossy Wild-currant, Shiny-leaved Rhus, Blinktaaibos Searsia lucida (formerly Rhus lucuda ) ANACARDACEAE (the mango family) At the moment t...

Erica subdivaricata ERICACEAE (erica family) This beautiful erica grows up to 1 m and has small, bell-shaped, white (sometimes just tinged ...

Rough Blue Sage, Bloublomsalie, Salvia chamelaeagnea LAMIACEAE (the mint and sage family) This pretty plant is flowering on the Common n...

The pine trees that occur on the Common are the Maritime or Cluster Pine ( Pinus pinaster ) and the Stone Pine ( Pinus pinea ) both native ...

Carly Cowell of Kirstenbosch is also the SANBI Project Co-ordinator for the Millennium Seed Bank Project , run by Kew Gardens. Carly has tra...

A guided spring flower walk was led by Fiona Watson on Saturday 19 September on Meadowridge Common. Meadowridge Common, our conservation ar...

You often see these flat, prickly leaves in the middle of the paths on Meadowridge Common. Have you ever stopped to wonder what they are? I...