We're excited to welcome new writers to our gardening magazine this hot month of February 2017: Marijke Honig, Michelle Hatherly, and Nick Evans, along with our popular inland writer and landscaper, Emmarie Otto. Jenny is still on a short break. 

We have an eclectic range of articles this month; Marijke covers in-depth the currently trending issue of water-wise gardening and asks us to examine our behaviours through a water-wise quiz I encourage all of you to download and fill in. We form design is simple, and in black and white for quick download and printing. Gardens and wild areas all suffer from the plague of invasives and alien plants; Michelle Hatherly has been educating gardeners on this issue for years and provides us with a list of indigenous choices we can plant instead. Nick Evans is an amphibian specialist and this month helps us to understand the importance of snakes in the ecosystem. 

Plus, we offer up 50 Shades of Grey, Good Bones to grow in the Karoo, gorgeous Summer Bulbs, 5 Crinums to identify, Container Art, and a Wild Day in Suburbia. 

Boundary Screens for Small Gardens
Dressing Slopes in Small Gardens
Plectranthus aliciae
Crassula obovata
Cheap, Fast Calories - Do our feeding habits make city birds fat and sick?
Managing the Autumn Garden
Black Gold
Gardening in Sandy Soils
What's in a Name?
Butterflies and Weeds
Anisodontea Classic Cerise
Natural Tones

In this issue: Salvia muirii; Seasonal Cheer; Welcoming you Home; Diversity among the summer grasses; Budget Conscious Gardening; Fabulous Succulent Foliage; When Bare Patches are good for Wildlife; Coastal Beauties; Grassland Pelargoniums; and more

We have put together a gallery of design ideas to help our readers get to grips with what they’d like to create in their backyards. The idea is to provide a creative scrapbook to help you conceptualise what you want, and provide a launching pad for next year’s creations. So, we offer bushveld, wildflower grassland, textured combos, Cape groundcovers, and shady ideas. We do hope they will whet your appetite for next year’s reads. 
Jenny is passionate about designing green corridors for safe wildlife movement and foraging and talks about one newly planted. I’m almost sure the birds are keeping an eye out for the first fruits.
Emmarie continues her gardening journal – it is now summer in her Highveld grassy meadow, and the landscape looks outstanding. And, Aristea ecklonii, one of the most beautiful wildflowers found through much of the country is in spectacular form right now.

Celebrating spring in South Africa, this issue is rich in colour and diversity; 
Spectacular September by Jenny Dean; Bringing Back the Meadows, Part 2 - Spring, by Emmarie Otto; Bottlebrush Aloes; Spring Flourish - wildflower and succulent arrangements; Adding Purpose to your Design Choice - and much more. 

In this issue: Time to trim and rejuvenate; Slender Trees, by Jenny Dean; Bringing back the Meadows, by Emmarie Otto; At the Edge - where Design meets Nature; Let Sleeping Succulents Lie - transform an old metal bed; The Gorgeous Soap Aloe; Wha't in Flower; Flatid Bugs; Wild Winter Creepers; Containing the Glossy Forest Lily; Hot, Dry Wall Display..

Set your African Garden Ablaze - Jenny gives tips on how to design, combine, and maintain a succulent display; we tackle the daunting task of designing a wildflower grassland; we offer some easy-care shrubs to screen where space is limited; and more.

From Humdrum to Vibrant - Jenny transforms this garden; Autumn Flowers to feed Garden Butterflies; Wild and Neat - we bring the grassland plains to the city; 2 Pots - 2 Makeovers; Floral Duet - Blue/ Mauve and Luminous Red; Read about Predators at Work, keeping your garden healthy, and Unusual Beauties for Hot, Dry Sun.

Nature inspires us this month, from a flower garden in the mountains, to discovering the gentle hobby of nature journaling. Jenny takes us through a challenging school garden re-vamp; the Buffalo Thorn is in the spotlight, and for gardener's with no space for trees, why not up-scale a shrub?

It is a spectacular summer in South Africa and we've put together a colour wheel for your garden. Plus; holiday projects: build a rockery and gabion wall, and we have wildlife goodies for the kids to make. Jenny offers a respite from the hurly burly of life, and those aquatic masterpieces, the Painted Reed Frogs, are stretching their vocals as the rains fall. Enjoy.

A Garden of Rooms, 6 Sure-fire Weed Control Tips, Add Zest with these Small Shrubs, A Sumptuous Summer-time Feast, Easy-care Bulbs and more

A crisp new spring is all about bringing us out into our garden spaces to marvel at the diversity and brilliance of the local fora. Try our riotous barrow bouquet, Jenny evokes the growing season with Scents of Spring that surround us if we only take the time to breathe. Showy yellow-gold flowers are in the spotlight with some colour to fill a gap. We inspire you to dress a pond; decomposers and insects are critical to the health of a garden so don’t skip past these articles if you want a landscape of flowers, fruits and wildlife! And for the handyman or woman, take a look at our potting table cobbled together from a few second-hand pallets.

Orange, russets and reds dominate a South African garden, and this month we offer winter Creative Designs with Aloes, Joys of a July Garden, with Jenny Dean, and how to make your garden water-wise even before you begin to plant. In the Plant Info section we offer a delightful fruiting shrub, Tetragona lauridia, the little used Salvia triangularis, the spectacular Rhino Thorn, and a lovely small tree for the garden, Galpinia transvaalica.

Gardening from scratch, butterflies galore, how to maintain your indigenous garden, plant files and more. Read it today.

Shades of blue and mauve abound during Plectranthus season; we look at some of the important fruiting species through autumn, as well as the importance of open area design. 

A bumper edition to cover February and March. From the April issue we'll be back to our once monthly publications. 
This is the issue to read if you are wanting to attract birds to the garden! Happy reading.

Local Trees for Bees, Dieramas- Hairbells of the Veld, So What IS Indigenous Design?, An African Herb Garden, Tarenna pavettoides,  A Small Wildlife Clump, plus all the regulars.

A living wall is the featured garden this month. Also in focus are indigenous trees for small gardens, potted inspiration for Christmas, how to design hard landscaping for wildlife and more. Plus, a fantastic book giveaway!

Our main story this month features the rescue of an urban garden in just three years; as the heat of summer intensifies, our thoughts turn to natural pools; the South African Celtis is under threat; our Red-chested cuckoo sings for us, and we offer colour spots for shade.

Grassland flowers gorge themselves on the late rains and bulbs have plumped up, ready to explode exuberantly from the earth. Jenny suggests some unusual grasses and spring flowers and shares an exciting find close to home. After a wander through a KZN grassland we bring some beauties to your attention, Flower Crab Spiders show their skills, we discuss the resilience of Thicket species, and excite you with some Fabulous Fusion

It's Spring! We offer some spring cameo delights, Charles Botha announces the top 10 bird plants for KZN, Jenny paints a mini veld garden, we look at the common problem of steep slope gardening, and more.

This month's exciting line-up includes A Living Roof, Making the most of a Postage Stamp Garden by Jenny Dean, Spring Golds for the Grassland, Creating a Bee friendly Garden, Creative ways with Rooftop Rain, plus the usual plant species info and more.

No drab winters in South Africa: the Mountain aloe brings golden colour, earthy tones of natural stone and bamboo and colourful berries for a winter wildlife menu. Jenny offers Shady Slope Solutions and we consider the moral issue of using weathered rock in the garden.

Nothing drab about winter in South Africa. An exuberance of Aloes, an indigenous herb box, a wildlife thicket, Over-wintering 101, Butterfly Gold...to name a few. Happy reading.

Our focus this month is on delicious shades of vermilion, the rich nectar foods for wildlife, urban forest gardens and an urban bush-style boma.

An important but oft ignored part of our wildlife garden design is the verge, and Jenny offers inspiration and a few design ideas.
Our pond building endeavours continue in part 2 of ‘It’s Time to build a Pond’ – and dragonflies and clicking stream frogs are already enjoying their new home. Our vibrant rockery is a stunning addition to any garden, adding the necessary rock homes for lizards amongst others. Looking for a small  project to spice up the shade? We have a focal point that will delight – we call it Shade Bling!

In this month\'s issue: Time to build a pond; Creative Responsibility; Indigenous Gardening for Kids; Delicious Ice Plant;A Year Long Show and more.

Keep cool in February - stay out of the sun and spend time designing - with our inspiring ideas.

To begin a new gardening year in mid-summer couldn\'t be better. We offer summer bulbs, daisies, garden cameos and much more.

Filled with African festive season container ideas, bird banquets, stunning focal point plantings and much more.

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