Hi, Andrew asks a good question I can't answer about how long the grassland remains green. Hopefully when Cameron returns he can help me add a bit more information about some of the places I am describing. I have added a main page with habitat photos for Maclear along with a table for the different species. <<http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…>http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… > I realized after the fact that the next morning early on our way to our next stop we found some more treasures that belong to this district: Brunsvigia grandiflora, Gloriosa modesta (syn. Littonia modesta), and Hypoxis rigidula. I found the Brunsvigia very interesting since it is the only species of the ones I have tried to grow that has ever bloomed more than once (two years in a row before skipping 2010). In fact mine had been blooming December 2009 in the Northern hemisphere so it was surprising to find it in bloom a month later in the Southern hemisphere in very different conditions. You can access it from the table. And finally I added the third and last species page for Maclear. <http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…> This page has a variety of different plants from different families. There is Moraea albicuspa, Tritonia drakensbergensis Cameron saw on another trip and a couple of Watsonias from the Iris family, three Oxalis species, more orchids (Satyrium, Schizochilus), Wurmbea kraussii and Zantedeschia albomaculata. As we didn't have any Oxalis experts in our group, hopefully Christiaan will check to see if I identified them correctly. We were mostly looking at what was illustrated in our field guides. We also saw Rhodohypoxis baurii and what the experts thought was a naturally occurring hybrid between it and Hypoxis argentea. I must confess it was one of those times I didn't crawl between the barbed wire fence so I didn't see it, but someone picked the three flowers and laid them on cardboard and I did get to see that. I didn't find that either Cameron or Bob had photographed Hypoxis argentea so I could add it to the wiki as well. After Maclear we made our way to Naude's Nek where we spent part of two days looking at flowers. This was a most amazing place and as long as it took me to do Maclear, doing it will be a major project. So I think I'll skip it for now and my next report will be two days later. Eventually I'll do a page for Naude's Nek. Mary Sue