Pelargonium cucullatum industrious under the sun

Pelargonium cucullatum flowers may be pale pink, the petal markings reduced to a few lines, accentuated on the upper petals. Growing near Hermanus in a hot and dry November the plant’s leaves are notably incurved, even appearing thirsty, or might that be a projection from a hiker who has run out of water? Many flowers have come and gone on this plant, but others in bud are still to open when the forerunners will be fruiting.

To insects this veld with ample to eat, all well presented, is more town-like than what the humans call town. Much less for a bug to enjoy in the human town, less clean air to breathe, and all sorts of weird dangers to life, so much worse than being eaten decently here by a bird or fellow creature of the veld.