The Indigenous Gardener - February 2017

In this issue

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. 

The Indigenous Gardener Magazine Description:

We are launching our exciting magazine app in April/ May 2016 and will also change production from 8 issues to 12 issues per year. The Indigenous Gardener digital magazine contains exclusive gardening content, the only gardening magazine in South Africa to feature only indigenous South African flora. We cover a diverse mix of topics, from garden landscape design and individual plant information to issues that face all of today’s gardeners - that of sustainable design in which we focus on water use, soil protection, plant choices, habitat and biome design and, of course, wildlife gardening - for we share our space with all of our magnificent local fauna and need to design in such a way as to create sanctuaries for all species. This is without doubt a magazine for the thinking gardener including as we do through provoking articles that all homeowner's, as citizens of the world, should be aware of and encouraged to implement.