Protea canaliculata 🌿 I tried photographing this one a few years ago and got to it too late, the blooms were all closed up. (See images 3-4) Then very kindly Karen from @riemblaar_karoo_reserve_ invited me to come have a look, and I squeezed in a visit on my way back from Gqeberha, where we’d been on Bird Island filming for our penguin documentary. I love me a plant detour! 😁✨🫶🏾❤️🔥
This gorgeous plant is pollinated by rodents and elephant shrews 🐭 It belongs to a small group of “ground proteas” that have largely given up on birds in favour of small mammals, a pollination syndrome called therophily.
A 2017 study at Kraggashoek used remote cameras to catch the culprits in the act. Small mammals made up 69% of all vertebrate visits, and the cast is wonderfully eclectic:
🐭 Micaelamys namaquensis (Namaqua rock mouse) the most frequent visitor at 41% of all visits
🐭 Elephantulus edwardii (Cape rock elephant shrew) the slowpoke, lingering 28 seconds per flower
🐭 Graphiurus ocularis (spectacled dormouse) normally too shy to trap, caught on camera here for the first time
✨Galerella pulverulenta (Cape grey mongoose) — yes, a carnivore, sipping nectar. Delightful.
The flower is exquisitely engineered for them: bowl-shaped, hidden low in the bush, dressed in dull wine-red instead of showy pinks, giving off a yeasty smell that means nothing to a sunbird but everything to a mouse out foraging at night. The nectar is 34–43% sugar, a calorie bomb for tiny mammals doing tiny mammal things in winter. As they slink in to drink, their faces get completely dusted in pollen. Historically, pollen in rodent poo was the first clue this plant wasn’t being pollinated by birds at all.
A flower that gave up on being seen, and aimed instead at being smelled. I love it 😻
#CheckMyPlants #ProteaCanaliculata #Fynbos #ShotOniPhone
Laat weet of daar nog van hierdie foto se prints daar buite is. Ons wil baie graag weet wat van 1/5, signed deur @liamlynchphoto in 2007, geword het.
@strauss_and_co auction
❤️🔥🌹🦂Scorpio full moon and the balance inbetween. The shift from summer to autumn has happened and I’m here for this new season: a little slower, a little colder, rest, roots and shoots.
Im understanding that in this eternal cyclical dance of fire, coals, dormancy, remembrance, regrowth, rising, celebrating life and repeat, you can exist in any one of these moments while the others softly carry you🌀🌱🦅🔥💖✨
Drove past this yesterday, for a second thought it was real 😆 did a full U-turn, got out of the car to check, only to find it was the world’s largest aloe sculpture 🤯Hello! 🤩 The detail is unreal. The only giveaway was the flat tops on the flowers. (And maybe the size too 😜)
⛰️❤️🔥🍂💫WILD EARTH ALCHEMY ~ an autumn immersion with Veld and Sea 🌳🌀🌟✨
⭐️event postponed⭐️
16, 17, 18, 23 & 24 May 2026
A seasonal exploration of ecology, wild food and regenerative practices.
We’re excited to share that registration is now open for Wild Earth Alchemy 2026! This five-day programme features five incredible teachers @rk_ct@byzayaankhan@roushannagray@kooked_sister@captaintomgray (and some surprise facilitators) sharing deep earth knowledge. This is a beautiful opportunity to slow down, reconnect and immerse yourself in a week-long autumn journey.
Through a combination of guided walks, hands-on workshops, earth-based wisdom and communal eating, we will explore:
The language of wild plants and how we can understand and work with them in our landscapes and kitchens
The gifts of the intertidal world and the nourishment of
seaweeds through coastal foraging and cooking.
The alchemy of fermentation, deep time microbial world, fire cooking and seasonal
preservation.
The ancient science of seed cycles, soil health and
a practical approach to regenerative gardening
The rhythms of the sun, moon, tides and seasons, and how they shape our plates and ecosystems.
Join us for five days of wild learning, remembering, tending, harvesting and creating, all culminating in a shared harvest feast - a celebration meal cooked over fire, honouring the cycles of nature and the gifts of autumn.
All details and registration are linked in bio or DM for details 💫
Prince used to be a gangster. Now he walks his Soweto streets with a slight swagger, a little trouble in his hat, and when he dances on a street corner, the kids, the mamas, the hustlers, even the tsotsis stop to watch.
The African Cypher is about what happens when dance is the thing that keeps you alive..literally, spiritually, economically. It’s about ritual, celebration, council, storytelling.
It’s about Prince, a little bit famous for the way he moves down a dusty Soweto street. It’s about Tom London from Soweto’s Finest, who says, “when we dance we find purpose with our bodies.”
“I dance, as if I have a gun to my head.” — @madamo_sa , @shakersandmovers.n
🏆 Best SA Documentary — Durban International Film Festival
🏆 Audience Award — Encounters
🏆 African Academy Award nominee
It’s been on YouTube, mostly unseen. We’ve never shared it on Instagram. Beginning of winter in South Africa, if you’re looking for something real to watch this weekend, here it is.
Link in bio. ⛈️🎬
Dir. Bryan Little | Prod. Filipa Domingues
#TheAfricanCypher #Pantsula #StreetDanceSA #SouthAfricanFilm #Soweto SAFilm
Thank you @publicshowsofaffection for creating this sweet little video! Link is now up in my bio for the Back a Buddy link if you feel called to throw a penny in the wishing well 😁🏄🐐🌊🤙
If you missed the making of this one, here’s the full story. 🎨
@reetreweek and her team spent several days on scaffolding at the V&A Waterfront, bringing the Great African Sea Forest to life on @patagoniacapetown ‘s wall ✨🦦 Every creature you see, the kelp, the sharks, the fish, the cape clawless otter at the centre, is a love letter to the marine ecosystem right on our doorstep.
The LED jellyfish installation lights up at night. Because of course it does. 🪼
This is @earthagencyorg ‘s first large scale public mural and we couldn’t be prouder of what this team pulled off.
More to come. ✨🐧🦭🙏🏾🌊
So this happened 😀✨🦦🦭🐟🌊
eARTh Agency’s first large scale public mural is up at the @vandawaterfront , Cape Town. Painted by the incredible @reetreweek and her team @tulips_and_chimneys.tv supported by @patagoniacapetown , a love letter to the Great African Sea Forest 🫶🏾
Within some sort of blessed synchronicity, not knowing initially that Ree was going to feature a cape clawless otter, Bryan has been gently witnessing an otter den near our home over the past few months. As Filipa says about the otters, ‘The patient ones will be rewarded.’ so pls explore this carousel with that in mind. ✨🙂
At night, the jellyfish light up. We’ll let that land when you get there. We’re incredibly proud of this one 🥲 the first of hopefully many more to come! thank you to everyone who made it happen. 🙏
eARTh Agency is a not for profit, ecological storytelling agency working at the intersection of conservation culture, art and spirituality ecology.
And to Ree’s incredible crew who brought this to life
@ninapfeiffer (producer extraordinaire 🥂)
@3rnst4lex (the technical wizards behind the jellyfish magic)
@papsakki climber extraordinaire 🧗
thank you for being absolute legends. 🙏✨
Ps. Don’t bother asking, we will not reveals the otter location 😘
Seasons greetings ! The autumn equinox issue of HEARTH 🔥 Our seasonal field journal is out now. Link in bio + sign up for our future murmurations from Cape Point on our website. ✨
We’ve been documenting the process of @empatheatre latest play, Isitha Sabantu 🐘 last night was the opening show. What an honor it’s been to witness this work! Deep gratitude and appreciation to have gotten to know each and everyone involved ✨✨✨🙏🏾
#eARThAgency #IsithaSabantu
6 years ago today, the most beautiful special hound in the world left us 💔 this photo was taken the day before she died. She was regal and beautiful to the very end. I didn’t think I’d ever recover after losing her… 😭💔How lucky we were to have spent 12 years with the one and only, golden delicious pumpkin fritter, GOLDENSNOUT 🫶🏾 gone but never forgotten🥹✨❤️🔥
