Luminous bokbaais

If you are a fan of vygies and similar plants, you can have swathes of these flat-growing succulents in flower every season if you plant different species, both indigenous and exotic, which are available as both annuals and perennials.

But there is no more cheerful sight than a patch of one of our most famous wildflowers, the annual bokbaaivygie (Cleretum bellidiforme). On a sunny late winter or spring day, the dazzling flowers in a rainbow of colours open up widely to invite honeybees and other pollinators to pay a visit, and your rock garden, pots, or any other sunbaked spot, will be ablaze with colour!