In A Class Of Their Own… Apricot Roses

Apricot roses are a favourite with gardeners who want the best of both worlds – soft pastel colours that also have an intensity of colour that stands up to our long, sunny days.

Nursery School Part 6

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

Swanky Or Simple...

Seven Herbs For Holiday Entertaining

Cape Hollyhocks Ideal For The Shade Garden

The Cape hollyhock or Kaapse stokroos is a large, ornamental shrub in the mallow family Malvaceae, which includes other South African members like the cross-berry (Grewia occidentalis) and the coast hibiscus (Hibiscus tiliaceus). Named after the Swedish botanist Anders Sparrman (1748 – 1820), there are seven species of Sparrmannia, of which two occur in southern Africa.

Forever Beautiful

GET THE LOOK There are so many times when roses evoke a ‘wow’ from us! This bed, planted up with pale lemon ‘Forever Busy’ together with ‘Bridal Pink’ and ‘Amarula Profusion’ with purple ‘Vodacom’ at the back, is one such instance. These floribunda roses show off what floribundas are known for: a multiplicity of blooms that tumble downwards to create a magnificent border. The effect is enhanced by spot-on placing in terms of height. The lowest-growing rose, ‘Amarula Profusion’ (knee height), has been planted in front, with hip-height ‘Forever Busy’ and ‘Bridal Pink’ both in the middle, and ‘Vodacom’ at the back, growing to shoulder height. Other tall-growing pastel roses lead the eye along the bed, with some deep red added for liveliness. This garden, which was part of last year’s Joburg Rose Garden Bus Tour, was designed by Karen Gardelli.

Highveld Colour At Its Best

When her client, who is a florist, asked her to design a garden that 'vomits' colour , Debbie Smit compiled with a garden straight from a storybook.

Getting To Grips With Galls

Plant galls may be unsightly, but they’re no reason to panic!

4 ways to revitalise the rose garden

Roses that are in the shade, in too much sun, or just don’t look right can be safely moved this month.

2019 Trending Indoor

The return of 1970s fashion and design has one major highlight for us gardeners – the current boom in the popularity of indoor plants.

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

Autumn In Bloom

Autumn is often called the second spring because there are so many garden flowers in bloom at this time.

End Of The Season

Looking back – a review of the rose season.

Rosy Effects

Rosy Effects

Green Up Your Workspace

Indoor plants have made it back into the home, adding colour or lush greenery as indoor decor, so why shouldn’t that be extended into the personal working space? 

Gardening With Bees

Gardening With Bees

Landscapes in seascapes

Meticulous site planning and the careful selection of salt- and wind-tolerant plants were the key to success in this tough hill-top Plettenberg Bay garden.

Hydrangeas Summer = Flower Power

Don’t forget this old faithful for summer flowers in the semi-shade.

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.

Meet Moot House

Soak in the Grandeur of a bygone era in parktown

Water Features: Keeping Them Clean

Water Features: Keeping Them Clean