Flowers

Series captures the complexity of grief, family and rediscovery through love

Buy locally grown flowers, in particular indigenous species

It’s the last big sale before Valentine’s Day and flower buyers are stocking up on bestsellers — everything that is red.

The online charity auction for the right to name South Africa’s most recently discovered flower species has already drawn a bid of R60 000.

More than one in four of all flowering plants are under threat of extinction, according to an alarming report by scientists.

It’s one of the world’s largest flowers, it stinks of rotting meat or rancid cheese and looks very much like a giant penis.