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Alas not available outside South Africa but SA Country Life Magazine's May 2010 issue contains a nice article about "the strange duck in the South...
Next week we are with both feet on the ground again: The Independent (UK): "Best Garden in the Western Cape" http://ow.ly/11jQP
Almost the end of the year and so many (too many......) things to do. We can't forgive ourselves. We still had the old label (as identified by...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Two pictures; shot this morning in our garden (apologies for spelling errors in file names). The one with the yellow...
The most prominent visible aloe specie is the quiver tree (Aloe dichotoma) which originates from Namibia. There are about 100 different genuine...
Indeed and not "most likely": Aloinopsis malherbei IS named after Malherbe!!!
Shot in 'his' garden; the graves of South African cactus pioneer Marthinus Malherbe and his wife Molly Darling. More know about Malherbe in the...
The state financed botanical gardens of South Africa as Kirstenbosch and the ones in Durban and Pretoria/J'burg are widely known. Less known are...
It's a plant; to be more specific Cyphostemma juttea. Locals also call it 'Our meid se boude' (=Old womans bump)
It's an Euphorbia caput Medusa Endemic to the Table Mountain in Cape Town but you will hardly see them there anymore. One of South African habits...
Pictures of the Green Cathedral of South Africa tell more than an endless stream of words: See for yourself and enjoy: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Enclosed are: 1) PDF file of article that is published in the August iddue of the Dutch edition of Home & Garden. 2) photo of the oldest cactus...
There is an educational aspect within botanical gardens. Very often this is forgotten for nowadays visitors to botanical gardens want to be...
We never prune! Only when a branchtip dries out (rot) we take the tip of and seal the wound.
It took the owners six years to develop a new Dry Garden. It’s a true South African story about ‘Een Boer maak een plan’ (a farmer makes a plan)....
Thanks, I just mailed Bob and Toni to pop in since we're not too far from the airport where they land in South Africa. Hope that they succeed...
Mark, We are just so lucky to be in the right environment for these plants. About jealousy: I see in this posting two of your plants which...
Thanks Eric. Andrew will be glad with your opinion! Herman
There are around 2000 Lithop species indigenous to Southern Africa and Andrew van Ginkel in McGregor in the Western Cape, South Africa has them...
