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LIVELY LEAVES

Often referred to as zebra plants or peacock plants, calatheas are known for their bold rounded leaves.

Layer your bulbs

BULB NEWS

Plant Your Own Bog Garden

If out of the ordinary is what you’re looking for, look no further than bog gardens and the endless list of quirky, offbeat plants.

Vibrant (and rustic) autumn shades

At this time of year every gardener can enjoy the shapes, rich foliage colours and colourful flowers of these reliable plants.

Good bed-mates!

What you plant together in a bed should look like they were born for each other.

The War of the Roses

The ‘Iceberg’ roses in this marvellous garden have a story to tell.

COVER CROPS FOR THE SOIL

Timeless remedies

HERBS for VEGGIES

Herbs and vegetables that are good companions in the garden often complement one another in flavour when cooked together or used in salads.

A QUICK GUIDE to keeping your ferns alive

‘Pteridomania’ (Fern Fever) is the term coined in 1855 to describe the fern craze that was sweeping across Victorian England at the time.

Superb Boetabessie For Coastal And Water-Wise Gardens

Known by many common names, including bietou, boneseed, tick berry, brother berry, bush-tick berry, boetabessie, bosluisbessie, bokbessie and skilpadkos, this member of the daisy family (Asteraceae) with bright yellow flowers is very well known by its old name, Chrysanthemoides monilifera.

The Great Indoors

HOW TO ENHANCE YOUR INTERIOR WITH PLANTS

Selectively Targeting Caterpillars

Using beneficial bacteria as an efective solution to caterpillar outbreaks.

Three Eye-Catching Mixers

Modern varieties of small plants growing no taller than shin high can add a powerful punch to your summer beds or pots.

Same Same, But Different...

Some begonia hybrids are made for pots, and because they go with just about anything we added some beautiful foliage contrast.

Tuscan Treasure

Two years ago Nolan and Lillian Antonie and their young son, Luke, moved into their dream house in Muldersdrift.

Dazzle With Begonias

If you really want to know how to make a splash with begonias, visit parks and gardens in summer and be inspired by dazzling displays of massed begonias along with other summer bedding annuals.

The Lily Of The Incas

All there is to know about alstroemerias.

The Dangers Of Polyphagous - Shot Hole Borer

Although these pests may be tiny, the presence of Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer (PSHB) in South Africa is a massive cause for concern.

Indigenous Spring Beauty Nemesias

Spring flowers the world over have a softness and beauty that captures the spirit of the season itself. Our indigenous spring flowers are no exception, especially the trio of nemesia, diascia and bacopa, which are still wild at heart.

Indigenous Orange Poppies For Small Gardens

PROUDLY SOUTH AFRICAN.

Hydroponics 101

Is hydroponics right for you?

Hop, Skip And Jump Into Spring

There is no colour combination that better says spring has arrived than purple and yellow. A pot filled with shades of purple with a touch of pink and contrasting yellow screams, “Look at me! I’m beautiful and I will flower all season!”

Herbs For Pork

Chicken or beef? Besides being the choice on those long overseas flights, that is usually the choice we make when drawing up the weekly menu plan for the family.

Dynamic Disease Control

This particular bacterium is one of the good guys, keeping fungal outbreaks under control.

Discussion - The Ethos And Inspiration Of Bonsai

Agriculture, husbandry and working with plants are some of the oldest pursuits of mankind.

Gardens Within

Old trees, expansive lawns, bulging borders and lightly controlled wildness contrasting with formality, all encompassed in a series of garden rooms – this is the essence of Stellenberg Gardens.

Summer's Most Colourful!

The hardest-working flowers in the summer garden all have these key elements in common: they should be easy to grow, heat tolerant, kind to your water bill and supply brilliant colour for many months. Here are three that fit the bill:

Welcome Back Summer's Best-loved Flowers For Shade

The fast-filling bedding Impatiens walleriana, which all but vanished from summer shade gardens, is back, and without the risk of dying from downy mildew.

Taming The Wild At Chelsea

Part Two of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Simple Sun-lovers

Hello sunshine! That’s the cheerful greeting you get from marigolds, and what better tonic is there than a bed, border or container filled with these cheerful flowers.