Statue with agapanthus and Table Mountain behind, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa

Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa

Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa

Cape sugarbird, Promerops cafer, perched on pincushion protea, Kirstenbosch botanical gardens, Cape Town, South Africa

Flower of the king protea, Protea cynaroides, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa

Southern (lesser) doublecollared sunbird, Cinnyris chalybeus, perched on pincushion protea, Leucospermum erubescens, Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa

Orangebreasted sunbird, Anthobaphes violacea, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa

Cape sugarbird (Promerops cafer) on King Protea, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa

Southern double collared sunbird, Cinnyris chalybeus, feeding, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa

Cape sugarbird, Promerops cafer, on silverleaf wheel-pincushion, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa

View of Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa

Orange-breasted sunbird, Anthobaphes violacea, Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa

Cape sugarbird, Promerops cafer, on king protea, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa

Cape sugarbird (Promerops cafer), Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa

King protea (Protea cynaroides) flower, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa

Pincushion protea (Leucospermum cordifolium), Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa

Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa

Cape sugarbird (Promerops cafe), perched on protea, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa

View of Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa

Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, Constantia, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa

Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, Constantia, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa

Tree ferns, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa

Colonel Bird's Bath in the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens in Cape Town, South Africa. It was built by Colonel Christopher Bird, the British Deputy Colonial Secretary during the occupation of the Cape by the British in the early nineteenth century. It was designed to collect the water and let it stand and clarify before being piped to his house for drinking water. It is often incorrectly referred to as Lady Anne Barnard's bath. She was the Colonial Secretary's wife but the bath was built after she left the Cape.

View of Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens and the back of Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa.

View of Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens and the back of Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa.

View of Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens and the back of Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa.

Helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris), adult, young animals, chicks, alert, walking, Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa

Strelitzia (Strelitzia reginae), flower, flowering, Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa