The autumn and winter months are wonderfully colourful in the summer rainfall areas of South Africa – and the air is filled with butterflies and other insects. Seed-eating birds make the most of the seeding grasses and there are a variety of late-summer flowering trees and shrubs which carry fruit into the winter, providing food for a wide range of birds and insects.
The winter garden can be more colourful than the summer garden, it’s just a matter of knowing what to plant. From April to August, the aloes become a brilliant splash of colour
