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These blog posts are designed to offer educational and comprehensive guidance on plant care, covering everything from watering to managing pets around plants.

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…

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,…

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,…

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…