Category Archives: Haworthia

My seventeen-year-old daughter Gretchen and I were met at Cape Town Airport by Kobus Venter on Friday evening August 15, 1997. We spent our first weekend in South Africa with the Venters. This was Gretchen’s first trip to Africa and … Continue reading →

Here are some more photographs from my 1995 trip to South Africa. These plants were growing in the hundreds near the town of Patensie. To give you some perspective on the size of the plants, the leaves are as long … Continue reading →

At first my business trip to South Africa was a dream, a wish, then on, then off, then back on, then delayed, and finally after years of daydreaming and scheming I found myself half a world away. I left work … Continue reading →