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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.

September Is For Salvias

There is no better way for your garden to scream ‘spring’ than with salvias.

Pride And Joy! Pincushion

Don’t give up on pincushions just because you think you live in the wrong place!

Passion Flower

The passion fruit might be the most famous Passiflora species, but there are many more glamorous ornamental options.

It's All About The Flowers: Coaxing The Best Blooms From Your Roses

Next month is Rose Month, when the roses need very little encouragement to bloom their heads off. That may be so, but with the right treatment in September the roses will delight not only in October but can also be set up to flower well for the rest of the season.

Indoor Colour For Spring

Bring the spring feeling indoors with lilies, early-flowering roses and begonias that are as colourful as any spring bedding plant. They all grow well indoors and can be planted outdoors to extend their summer show.

Colour In The Sky!

Hanging baskets are the purest joy of spring gardening.

Beautiful Asparagus Berries

Among the numerous species of Asparagus found in South Africa, many have long, sharp spines that make them a challenge to work with in the garden.

Architects of Creativity

Gardening is an extension of one’s self and one’s lifestyle, and nowhere is this more evident than this creative garden in East Griqualand

An Eden Called Babylonstoren

Babylonstoren has all the abundance of its namesake, producing and serving the freshest organic produce with an unerring sense of style.

Lilies For Every Occasion

Get to grips with the diversity of the lily family

Are You Doing It Wrong

If gardening’s not really fun anymore, it might be because you’re making one of the mistakes that we all make.

Mass In The Shade

Last month we gave you the names of small and pretty trees to plant close together to form a mini forest. Now we introduce you to the best groundcovers to plant underneath them, and they grow fast!

10 Top Tips For New Fishkeepers

Pet healthcare is so important, and fish are no different.

Copious Coprosma

I ’ve been a closet fan of the mirror bush all my life, and still harbour in my garden the old shiny, green Coprosma repens with its polished leaves.

Poppies & Roses

Moving roses – this is the month to do it!

Tree Time For ‘Me Time'

If you can’t get into the healing environment of a real forest to do some ’forest bathing’ you can go for plan B, which is to create your own mini woodland area.

Beautiful Natal Red Top

The Natal red top, also known as Natal grass or Natalse rooipluim, is a very striking annual or biennial in the grass family Poaceae.

Three Furry-Leafed Kalanchoes

Winter is very much succulent season, with many of the plants looking their bright and colourful best during the cooler weather. Most kalanchoe types are grown for their attractive flowers, which usually appear during the short day lengths of winter, but some are cultivated specifically for their interesting or unusual foliage. Here are examples of three such kalanchoes, which all originate from Madagascar. They are easy to grow and thrive in many gardens around South Africa, especially in the drier areas.

Tropical In A Pot

If you love tropical plants but the area you live in is not conducive to them thriving, you can get the look by planting your tropical gems in a pot and sheltering them on a warm patio.

Gardening In Small Spaces

Size doesn’t matter when it comes to an exciting garden.