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Pansies To Brighten Your Garden

Nothing matches their charm, or the incredible array of colours and colour combos. There are pansies with faces, with whiskers, and with frilly petals, and even some that look as if they have been hand painted.

Tabernaemontana Elegans

(Toad tree, paddaboom)

A New Lease Of Life

We used some elbow grease and Howard Feed-n-Wax to give an old chair a second chance.

The Carbon Effect

The link between soil health, carbon and healthy plants

Nursery School Part 2

Sow the seeds of a lifelong love for nature by introducing your sprouts to these playful and rewarding projects with plants.

Trimming & Training

Get your climbers looking good, and your garden off to a good spring start.

Eco Tricks To Combat Snails

Snails can become pests in the garden, especially when they eat all the lettuce leaving little for the human family.

On My Watch!

I have come to the conclusion that I have grown too old to be a grandmother…

10 Fun Garden Ideas To Try This Year

10 fun garden ideas to try this year

An Introduction To ‘Biologicals' In Gardening

Gardening is biology, revolving around the biological processes of growth and life. For millions of years, plants have thrived and grown successfully with no human intervention.

Compost Making On A Shoestring

There is a cheap way to turn fallen autumn leaves, lawn clippings and other organic material that has been cut into smaller pieces into valuable compost for your garden without the need to actually make a large compost heap or buy a proper composter.

Superb Bride's Bush For Small Gardens

Members of the genus Pavetta are dwarf shrubs or small trees belonging to the coffee family Rubiaceae, and there are about 400 species, spread over tropical and subtropical Africa, Asia and Australia.

Taming The Wild At Chelsea

What was evident in all the gardens was our relationship with the natural world and why ‘wilding’ is becoming so valued...

Welcome spring… with violas

Violas are irresistible. They are petite, fragrant, flowers without any fuss and come in every colour of the rainbow.

Echinacea Ticks All The Boxes

Rugged beauties, daisies on steroids, call them what you will – Echinacea purpurea, otherwise known as the purple coneflower, is a bold and beautiful perennial for sunny gardens.

Build A Mini Spiral

The spiral symbol represents movement, usually the movement from outer consciousness to inner awareness and peace. In her own quest for peace, Tanya built a mini spiral in her garden.

Stretched & Stressed

Echeverias are so popular with everyone, but sometimes things go sideways…

The Long Garden

We create gardens to nourish our human spirits and satisfy our senses.

Moonstruck!

Pretty in the sun and glowing at night…

Blooming Nicely...

They’re out there and waiting for you – little pots filled with bright colour that will make your indoor spaces blooming beautiful in winter.

Anthuriums Bringing Back A Classic

Anthuriums are exotic plants with unique, almost bizarre flowers that make them undeniably irresistible.

What's Potting With Containers?

Indoor plants are the new popular design trend.

Stylish Restoration In Saxonwold

Joburg’s venerable trees have been treated with the respect they deserve in a garden makeover that features roses, roses and more roses.

Graceful Grasses

Their true beauty is blowing in the wind.

Stop And Smell The Roses

Make use of the new varieties of fragrant roses becoming available.

Boxed In!

A window box can be a whole lot of garden in a very confined space!

From Green Manures To Microgreens

Winter sowing is coming to an end, except in sub-tropical areas where the season is only really starting! Time to get ready for winter and the challenges that it brings.

ALOES: Get On Trend In 2017

Smaller aloe hybrids are adding a new dimension to the family’s appeal.

Growing Orchids In The Garden

It might sound surprising, but there are quite a few orchids that can be grown in the garden, planted in normal garden soil. While most of us think of orchids as epiphytic, there are many terrestrial (growing in soil) orchid species around the world as well, and in South Africa there are more of the indigenous terrestrial orchids than epiphytes.

Tough, Showy Noorsdoring Euphorbia For Water-Wise Gardens

Euphorbia is a large and very diverse, cosmopolitan genus in the Euphorbiaceae family consisting of about 1500 species, occurring in most parts of the world except for the polar regions.