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Golden Showers

This vine is absolutely a delightful sight, especially in the winter months when many other flowers are dormant. It flowers for many months from just after Christmas right through January, February, March, April, May, June and July. In full flower, this creeper is a breathtaking sight, cascading like a waterfall of orange trumpets. When in full bloom, this evergreen creeper
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How to care for your Jade Vines Indoors And Out

Strongylodon macrobotrys, commonly called jade vine, is a perennial woody vine that grows an average to about 10 meters long. It is particularly noted for the unique jade colour claw-shaped flowers which bloom in huge, showy, pendant, grape-like, clustered racemes that can droop up to one meter in length. Each raceme has 75 or more flowers, and each flower is
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Low-Maintenance Ferns to Liven Up Your Garden.

Ferns are ideal to create an instant tropical feeling to your garden and smaller type ferns are excellent companions in a shaded garden, where they offer a texture change when planted with other perennials such as hostas, impatience or plectrantus. Their hardiness varies by species, but overall, ferns make tough yet beautiful additions to just about any shade garden. At
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Moringa Benefits

Moringa tree (Moringa oleifera) , also known as the Miracle Tree due to its super food and health bebefit qualities, are becoming increasingly popular as people are getting to learn more about their many uses. Extremely fast-growing. Under the right conditions, it can grow up to 3 meters within a year. Moringa, packed with nutrients and antioxidants, makes a perfect
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Syzygium pondoense (Pondo Water Wood)

Syzygium pondoense (Pondo water wood), is indigenous and endemic to our region, here in the lower Southern Kwa-Zulu Natal as well as the Northern Eastern Cape area. It grows mainly along the rocky beds of streams, but overexploitation for its many medicinal properties, has become very rare in the wild. This in an evergreen and hardy small tree that grows
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Neem Oil Benefits

NEEM OIL BENEFITS Neem oil is an effective and natural way to kill bugs on houseplants, or battle tough insect pests out in the garden. Neem oil has a dual purpose in the vegetable garden as both a pesticide and a fungicide. It works on arthropod pests that often eat your vegetables, including tomato hornworms, corn earworm, aphids and whiteflies.
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ELEPHANT EAR

Elephant Ears is the common name for a group of tropical plants of more than 250 different species and varieties that includes colocasia, alocasia, caladiums and xanthosaoma. They are tender plants that become hardy in the warmer parts of our country, especially in the tropical climate of the KZN coast. Whereas inland places with colder frosty climates, they’re tend to be more
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Bearded Iris Planting Instructions

Bearded Iris (Iris Germanica) are semi evergreen flowering perennials, grown from rhizomes that flower early summer. They require minimum care, they are extremely drought, heat and cold tolerant; and multiply easily via rhizomes. They have more or less 10 sword shaped flat leaves that grows to resemble a fan. The leaves are bluish-green in colour, about 30cm in height and
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How to grow hydrangeas

Hydrangeas are much-loved deciduous hardy shrubs, with large, rounded flower heads in shades of white, blue and pink that blooms in summer and autumn. In this blog we will look at hydrangea care, learn where and when to plant hydrangeas and how to care for them. Hydrangea care Where to plant hydrangeas Hydrangeas do best in moist, well-drained soil and
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Geranium

Our own indigenous beauties. Most people know geraniums as those bright red, pink or white flowers commonly known in South Africa as Malvas. However, the geranium has a huge diversity of colours, leaves and flower shapes, sizes and growth forms. They not only bloom in red, pink and white, but also in many other shades such as violet, lilac, burgundy,
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