1. Colour in a jiffy
If you were a bit lax with your planting programme for spring and early summer, and are missing out on colour around you, relax. Nurserymen did all the work for you during winter and their display areas will be filled with colour pots or bags with annuals, bi-annuals and early flowering perennials already in flower to give you a quick fix.
2. Plug in some fleabane
Erigeron karvinskianus is one of those groundcovers that one can stick into nooks and cracks and will maybe forget about until it starts flowering (which is seldom not the case!).
If your old garden steps have become a bit worse for wear, or you have nooks and crannies to fill up, use fleabane. In this scene they have turned ordinary steps into flowering, romantic steps.
3. Keep it simple
A large ball cut plant or any other spherical form makes a statement as a focal point where one is needed. If you have access to any type of stone which can be used like this, give it a try. Just packing it neatly will be therapeutic and the result will please you. A stone dome like this one, would be great between grasses or in a succulent garden.
4. Create a mono culture patch
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FIRE AND Feathers!
On a dreary winter's day, a screen of fiery and feathery leaves puts up a fight against dullness!
GET THE ladies in!
At this time of year, early-flowering shrubs vie with each other to get the most attention. We say: Trust those with female names for frills and butterflies. They go the extra mile to flower their hearts out.
Vegetable Soups and dumplings
Vegetables make the most delicious soups and classic combinations are always a winner.
Yummy sweet potatoes for your good health
Boiled, baked or braaied, sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) are a delicious and healthy winter comfort food. Just a dollop of butter, a little seasoning and you are good to go.
Pretty and functional
If cooking is your main thing, you would probably be more interested in the culinary value of the three herbs and some of their varieties we are describing.
Dried Seedheads & Pods
Autumn and winter are the best times to see what flowers produce the best seedheads that can be left on the plants to feed the birds and bugs and for harvesting for dried arrangements.
SO MANY FACES and so many choices...
Whoever associated a Cotyledon orbiculata (pig's ear) with the ear of a pig obviously did not know about all the varieties and cultivars this species in the genus Cotyledon has.
COLOURFUL Cold Weather WINNERS!
If it comes to a vote, these dependable shrubs will be the top candidates for prime performance in winter and in other seasons...
What makes a garden sustainable?
It is interesting to note that the United Nations defines sustainable development as: “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.
Nurturing NATURE-The Story of Kraal Garden's Transformation
Nestled within Prince Albert's rustic embrace lies a gem that is a testament to the transformative power of human vision and nature's bounty.
