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By Anno Torr It is now Aloe Season, and visitors to this garden are hard pressed to choose between gazing ahead at the stunning gorge...

By Americo N. Bonkewitzz, PhD Lawn, says Durban butterfly expert, Americo N. Bonkewitzz, gives us the dose of “green” that we like to see...

By Anno Torr All gardeners enjoy the delightful task of potting up spring containers or stretching our summer and spring colour displays...

By Anno Torr In the east of the country, the still warm, and increasingly drier days of April and provide perfect flying conditions for...

An impressive collection of aloes infuses this winter garden with colours of the sun By Anno Torr Along a quiet residential road in the...

By Anno Torr There are times when looking through books or wandering around the garden, you hit upon a combination that excites you...

By Jenny Dean A large part of my work is creating gardens within secure gated estates.  Residents are only allowed to plant indigenous...

So, what's new regarding mulch? It helps us save on water, fertilisers, and harmful poisons!  By Anno Torr I’ve got mulch on my mind!...

"By Anno Torr Frost Protection A simple, effective way to protect tender shrubs against frost Put your tender plants to bed! Many of us...

By Anno Torr Leaves are falling, summer rains are on the wane, winter rains are inching closer, and the nights are longer – welcome to...

KLEINIA FULGENS & KALANCHOE SEXANGULARIS Coral Senecio and Bushveld Kalanchoe, Red-leaved Kalanchoe   The summer green of Kalanchoe...

The autumn months are a crucial time for our fruit-eating birds, and they’ll be on the hunt for ripe berries and fruits before supplies...

Water wise species - and most gardeners interpret this label to mean plants that survive on little water - are currently the go-to plants...

Mention the word succulent, and many people envision a desert -like design.  Not so! The garden pictured here is alight with color year roun

Water-wise Gardening - Where are we? As a landscaper, I feel we pay lip-service to water conservation in the landscape industry. Despite...

From grasses, shrubs and trees, these are the best plants to attract birds to your garden.

“There is no clearer illustration of the extent of human dominance of the Earth than the fact that maintaining the diversity of ‘wild’...

Painting the slopes of the Drakensberg marshmallow pink are the large cup-like flowers of the Mountain Mallow, Anisodontea julii. This showy

Small gardens, or even small areas within larger gardens, need a tree in scale with the size of the area in which it will sit. But, aside fr

Senecio barbertonicus creates height at the top of the bank.  A small to medium size shrub with a neatly rounded shape it has bright green n