Winter in South Africa is actually one of the best times to visit botanical gardens—cooler temperatures, green landscapes, and, in the Cape especially, dramatic...
Every garden has its own unique environment, known as a microclimate. Even within a small backyard, conditions such as sunlight, wind, temperature, and moisture...
Some garden plants impress with spectacular flowers, while others earn their place through year-round reliability. The ice cream bush (Canthium inerme) manages ...
The garden in winter looks, to many eyes, like it needs attending to. Dead annuals, spent perennial foliage, seed heads that have passed their ornamental peak, ...
The cottage garden aesthetic is built on a particular kind of abundance: plants growing into and around each other, layers of colour and texture, the general im...
Dividing perennials is one of those garden tasks that inspires more anxiety than it deserves. It sounds destructive. You are digging up something healthy, cutti...
Evergreen structural plants provide year-round form, texture, and visual interest in the garden. Unlike seasonal flowers that come and go, these plants create a...
There's a point in nearly every flower garden, usually somewhere around the middle of summer, where the early enthusiasm starts to fade along with the blooms. T...
When temperatures drop, many flowering plants fade away. Fortunately, several annuals thrive in cool weather and continue to provide vibrant blooms when other g...
Most South African gardeners know that the big rose prune happens in July, and they're not wrong. But there is a window before deep winter that deserves attenti...
