Spring season has arrived! Spring Day is celebrated annually on the 1st of September in South Africa as this is when the spring season begins in the Southern Hemisphere. In South Africa, spring is incredibly colourful and vibrant because the flowers which grow country-wide bloom in a variety of striking colours. Nowhere in South Africa is spring (September to November) more spectacular than in the Cape provinces. Here the grey winter is forgotten as thousands of small, otherwise insignificant plants cover the plains in an iridescent carpet of flowers. The journey to see the flowers of the Namaqualand in the Western and Northern Cape is an annual pilgrimage for many South Africans. This season is anticipated and welcomed because it is the start of the pleasant, warm weather for which South Africa is so well known.
The end of winter and beginning of spring has always been associated with rebirth, hope and love and is the time when plants regenerate, animals birth and the world awakens from the chilly winter season.
