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A special space comes to life

A Stellenbosch green space has rare examples of fynbos and teems with life, writes Jeanne Viall.

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A Durban garden of delights

KZN landscapers Janette and Butch Joubert shared their 20-year-old exotic home garden...

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Gnomes march on Chelsea

Britain's smallest minority is taking its fight for recognition to the heart of the gardening establishment.

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Bromeliads come in a variety of shapes, forms and colours, often with striking, bright flowers and leaves.

Get hung up on exotic bromeliads
March 27 2013 at 13:02

Bromeliads come in a variety of shapes, forms and colours, many with bright centres or exotic-looking spikes of flowers.

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A sweet melon that Farouk Cassim grows from a plant in a pot. He recycles containers to use as pots. Picture: Ian Landsberg

Growing for the kitchen
March 14 2013 at 12:51

Educator and politician Farouk Cassim finds his way around a marshy concrete jungle to stock his pantry , writes Jeanne Viall.

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Flowering 'Pink Simplicity' roses in a field of scented blue lavender.

Sensuous scents of a summer garden
March 13 2013 at 13:03

Whether exotic or indigenous, a number of plants have delicious, memory invoking perfumes, writes Kay Montgomery.

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Tibouchinas have purple flowers in their natural habitat in South America, and Durban was the only place in the world that had pink ones (which have now been exported all over).

Springing into the autumn garden
March 12 2013 at 13:09

Autumn is very much KwaZulu-Natal’s second spring, says seasoned Durban gardening expert Eric Burgess.

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Art in the garden filled with orange gerberas. The hybridised descendants of our indigenous Barberton daisy will brighten up the darkest of shady corners.

Solutions for shady, dry spots
March 7 2013 at 13:06

Various traditional plants thrive in different types of dry shade, from dense to dappled, writes Kay Montgomery.

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Teeny, Tiny Gardening by Emma Hardy

How to get a teeny, tiny garden
March 5 2013 at 13:01

Kate Burt loves a new book which shares tricks for gardening in miniature...

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Landscaper Leon Kluge will share his secrets.

Gardens of the Golden City returns
March 4 2013 at 13:02

Each year, 10 garden clubs across Joburg come together to organise the annual Gardens of the Golden City programme.

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KwaZulu-Natal's coastal bitou bush or boneseed shrub is one of Australia's 32 Weeds of National Significance.

Gardening with the enemy
March 1 2013 at 12:11

Kay Montgomery finds out which South African plants are not welcome overseas...

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Singapore's Gardens by the Bay, the biggest garden project in the world. A view from the top of the Cloud Forest mountain down to a ravine planted up with tree ferns.

Durban horticulturalist helps build dream garden
February 26 2013 at 13:02

Durban Botanical Gardens’ Christopher Dalzell was invited to Singapore to join the executive team on the world’s largest garden project.

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Divide overgrown clumps of bearded irises and replant in freshly composted soil.

It’s time for sweet peas
February 25 2013 at 12:10

What to do in the garden...

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