After the recent fires much of the landscape is still barren and bleak. A little rain has coaxed some grasses and resprouters into sparse patches of green, but on the low-lying sandy flats thousands of candelabra lilies (Brunsvigia orientalis) have, almost literally, burst into bloom in an explosion of crimson colour. The sight is even more impressive as little else is flowering.
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It is a month since the peak of the most recent of the wildfires that raged in our district. Ironically, after the intense heat and dryness, this week a cut-off low weather system brought unseasonal deluges of rain, heavy enough to cause flooding in some communities.
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