Living Room Through Seasons

Be inspired by colour, recycling and edible gardening.

Little Shop Of Horrors

Little Shop Of Horrors

Understanding Diatomaceous Earth

Do away with bugs the natural way.

Types Of Bees

Bees are classified according to common character traits.

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.

Rolling Out The Royal Purple

Purple may be an uncommon colour for garden flowers, but there are some spectacular indigenous plants that you can use to bring it into the garden.

Mandevilla, Or Is It Dipladenia?

Call them what you will, these freeflowering plants just get better and brighter as new hybrids make their mark.

Leafy Potted Plants For Swimming Pools

Leafy Potted Plants For Swimming Pools

Food For Body And Soul

There’s no more scenic food garden than the magnificent Werf Food Garden at Boschendal.

Tough And Versatile Spekboom

Portulacaria afra

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.

Pelargoniums

Proudly South African

Flowering Bonsai

Although flowering bonsai are very popular in some regions of the world, particularly in Japan and the USA, beautiful flowering bonsai in South Africa are fairly rare. Most our indigenous trees do not produce huge masses of flowers like many of the trees in Japan, and the few that do are not really suited for bonsai. One of the most commonly used exotic species is the bougainvillea, while azaleas are also quite popular.

Rubble Country!

The world thinks we are a rubble nation. So why don’t we realise this ourselves?

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.

Living From The Air

Air plants, air ferns, oxygen plants, tillandsias, Spanish moss, old man’s beard, air bromeliad…

Gardenia Care

The delicate appearance and exceptional fragrance of gardenia flowers have earned these plants a place of honour in the hearts of many a romantic – it’s no wonder they’re referred to as the flower of love. But growing a gardenia can sometimes be a challenge.