Barbara Philip

Category: Flowers, Fruit & Trees

  • White cactus flower

    White cactus flower

    White flowering cactus, Silvermere
    Golden torch, (white) torch cactus or golden column.
    Echinopsis spachiana
  • Favourite Rose, Jude.

    Favourite Rose, Jude.

    My favourite fragrant rose, Jude.
    Jude the Obscure, my favourite rose
  • EDM flowers & trees 2018

    EDM flowers & trees 2018

    Acacia by the roadside. A.Sieberiana. Road to Groblersdal.
    Tree by the roadside. Acacia Sieberiana.
    Blue Lavender, Plumbago & Rosemary.
    Blue flowers in my garden. Lavender, Plumbago & Rosemary.
    The Reds of autumn in my garden.
    Autumn fruits and leaves. Tomatoes, Chillis, Rose-hips & Leaves of the Virginia Creeper.
    Road through the pine Forest, Buffelskloof,
    Buffelskloof Pine Forest. Mpumalanga
    Floral wallpaper.
    Commemorating Chelsea Flower Show 2018. Floral wallpaper. On homemade paper.
  • Botanicals

    Botanicals

    Common Grass of South Africa
    Red Grass, Themeda Triandra. Rooigras.
    Botanical study . Yellow Firethorn
    Pyracantha Augustifolia. Yellow Firethorn.
  • Two Roses

    Two Roses

    Old Roses
    Day 24, Everyday in May Challenge 2016. Very few roses left in my autumn rose garden, except these two, in celebration of the start of the Chelsea Flower Show that started today.
  • Acacia Karoo

    Acacia Karoo

    Thorn tree, acacia karoo.
    Day 12, Everyday in May Challenge, a detail of one of the Acacias we have on Silvermere.
  • Aloes, colour in the winter.

    Aloes, colour in the winter.

    This painting was inspired by the wonderful sea of red, of aloes flowering in July on our quick trip to PE. It sold on the day it was posted on Facebook:   Facebook.- Africanpainting.com

    Aloe Ferox
    Beautiful Aloes flowering alongside the road near Cookhouse.
  • Bees on the Quince flowers.

    Bees on the Quince flowers.

    Bees on the Quince Flowers
    Bees on the Quince Flowers. Gouache & watercolour on pastel paper.
  • Random Roses

    Random Roses

    Random Roses
    Random Roses. oil on canvas. 845 x 650 mm.

     

     

  • Spring has sprung on Silvermere.

    Spring has sprung on Silvermere.

    Sweet Violets. Watercolour. 350 x 250 mm

    Looking at these pictures you could be anywhere in the world when spring arrives. I am sure most of you recognize the beautiful heralds of the season; the daffodils, the violets and the willow! But this is the karoo, and though the rains have yet to arrive and set the veld alive with colour, we celebrate the newness of the season in our garden as it comes to life with joy. God is good and our lives are made new each day by His wondrous Grace!

    Daffodils. 250 x 350 mm watercolour

    Willow, Willow o’er the pond,

    Water lilies and draping frond;

    Darting fish and rushes grow,

    Brushed by the whispering winds that blow.

    But times do change, and the past it flees,

    Our pond is gone, but not the trees;

    The birds will come and nest again,

    The winds will blow and then the rain.

    The Willows stand and  grass will run,

    Spring will go and  summer  come!

    ( My willow poem)

    Draping Willow. Watercolour sketch. 210 x 290 mm.

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