At The Lord Milner Hotel in Matjiesfontein, our team recently embarked on a 125 km transhumance trek with a local Karoo sheep farming family, gaining deep insight into the heritage behind our beloved Karoo lamb. This time-honoured journey through the rugged landscape, marked by resilience, tradition, and connection to the land, revealed the true soul of the Karoo and the people who sustain it. Now, every dish of Karoo lamb we serve...
Lithops loganiae
Posted on Fri October 14, 2016.
A very special succulent...
Lithops Loganiae was named after James Douglas Logan (Junior) son of the Laird who was the first to find and document this particular species of Lithops (living stone succulents).
Lithops were favourites in Logan's collection. Wherever Logan saw a splash of white quartzite on the hillside he would bundle out and hunt for Lithops. Lithops flower in autumn, see photo below of flowering Lithops Loganaie.
Thank you to Heather Oosthuizen and her father, JD Oosthuizen(80 years of age and the Step grandson of James Douglas Logan(Jr) for their visit to Matjiesfontein in April 2016 and for compiling and connecting the above history.
Further Reading
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Olive Schreiner
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Olive Schreiner (1855–1920) is remembered as one of South Africa’s most influential literary figures and a pioneering feminist. Her works and activism during the late 19th and early 20th centuries left a lasting impact on literature, politics, and social reform in her home country and beyond.
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