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How to establish a grassland garden
Cupcake women's day
Garden tools that last lifetimes

Aloe petricola, the rock dweller
Felco pruning shears for different-sized hands
Succulent spotlight: Crassula multicava for semi-shade and shade areas
The beauty of the African dogrose seed ( Xylotheca kraussiana)

Felco father's day gift ideas
Orange and yellow strelitzias
Hedges that flower for shady spots
How to save soil when planting in pots

A deep dive into indigenous aloes
Our 2025 staff photo
Pruning handsaws for winter pruning

Shrubs and hedges and shapes
Felco gifts for Mother's Day
Daisies as winter groundcover
The call of the grey-headed bushshrike

The Mystroxylon (Kooboo berry) tree
Felco 684 pole pruner for citrus and macadamia trees
Three plants that are effective as gap fillers

Dwarf coral tree for small gardens
Magpie moth warning
Home-made slug repellant
Mac expo 2025

Breonadia salicina (African teak)
Chlorophytum bowkeri (boskuikens)
The importance of soil colour

Bird of the year 2025
Comparing the forest toad tree with the toad tree
Sweet viburnum as hedge
Introducing the lacewing insect

Introducing bone meal
Comparing Berchemia discolor with Berchemia zeyheri (birds love them!)
Fig-wasps
Felco gifts for gardeners

Explaining NPK fertiliser
Croton gratissimus tree (lavender fever berry)
Felco gifts ideas: pocket knife, lopper, pruning shears
Take care of ladybugs

Combretum krausii tree (Bosvaderlandswilg)
Garden pests
Use grey water manually
Young macadamia trees (20 litres)

Garden Spring Cleaning
Felco 2 pruning shears
Plant species name change
A tale of my vachellia nilotica (knopiesdoringboom)

First trees to flower for Spring
The deadly polyphagous shot hole borer (PSHB)
Birds on the farm

Our 12 litre macadamia saplings
Rhamnus prinoides L'Hèr (African Dogwood) tree
Three types of endemic long grasses for the garden
The why and the what of planting trees in Winter
Huernia zebrina succulent

The Oncoba spinosa (snuifkalbassie (Afr)) tree
Watch out for the red cotton stainer insect
Winter plants: Aloe mutabis and yellow aborescens
Father's day gift idea - cycad (broodboom)

Enemies of the aloe
Carissa macrocarpa (large num-num) tree/ hedge
Benefit of gardening for kids

How to plant a (big) tree - explained with pictures
John's favourite trees (we agree!)

Seedlings in their trays
Meet Promise
Our bee hotel
Chlorophytum bowkeri plant (boskuikens (Afr))

Bataleur - bird of the year 2024
Summer garden tips
Crassula spathula (groundcover) and Justica adhatodoides (shrub)
Bone meal

Gardenia volkensii (bushveld gardenia) tree
New in the nursery - great grasses
In flower now
Benefits of bark nuggets

How to plant a (big) tree part - with photos
The zebra plant

The Combretum Krausii (Bosvaderlandswilg (Afr.))
How to choose the right tree to plant in the right spot
Spring gardening for beginners

Understanding fertiliser (NPK)
Spring trees in flower
The Klaas and the Diederik cuckoos
Herbivore repellent to keep bucks away

Gardening in August
Coral trees - the 5 types
Bird of the year 2023

What to plant in shade: tree, shrub and groundcover
Gardening hacks to save effort
Macadamia nuts - good for cholesterol

Diving deep into planning a grassland garden
Understanding mildew on plants
Stinky Stapelia succulent

Black spots on aloes
How to prevent fungal diseases

Trees of the month: Breonardia tree and Portulacyarya (spekboom)
Thick-billed weavers
How to love bees

Meet the purple-crested Turaco
Watering tips
Tree of the month: Milletia grandis
The tall forest fever tree

Soil, the root of life
The pompom tree and the marula tree

In the nursery: Insects, flowers and trees

Spring flowers are everywhere

Flowering shrubs and daisies

Macadamia seedlings
Virburnum - the decorative hedge

Aloe mutabilis
Pair the aloe with these great companions