Orchid Spotting in Table Mountain National Park

Summer botanical beauties of Cape Town, South Africa

A large group of Fleck (Disa maculata) growing on a cliff face in Table Mountain National Park. Photo: ©Zoë Chapman Poulsen.

As the weather warms, the last of the Cape spring is fading and summer is upon us. The vast carpets of spring flowers for which South Africa is famous are over for the year. But now come the Cape flowers of summer, some of which take a little more determination to see.