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Vertical Garden

By on April 2, 2012 in garden

In our local newspaper was an article on Brendon Edwards designed and installed breathtaking vertical gardens in South Africa. He calls it living art. Take a look at his website: http://www.brendonedwards.com/ Helen McNulty African Cotton

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Offer: Mushrooms

By on March 23, 2012 in plant and seed exchange

These beautiful mushrooms are growing wild in our back garden. My husband wants to know if they are edible and if so would anyone out there like them. We live in Durban. – Helen McNulty  

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Botanical Society indigenous garden tour

By on March 19, 2012 in garden

Saturday, 24 March 2012 Oluhlaza is the isiZulu word for green and title of the blog recently created, for the property in Umgeni Heights http://oluhlaza.blogspot.com. The old Buttery homestead, tucked away on a panhandle, is a green enclave providing refuge to those who live in its garden and those who work and live in the [...]

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Biofuel in Durban?

By on March 12, 2012 in environment

Hey guys, I’m from Cape Town & doing a big road trip to KZN & beyond. Our car runs on bio-fuel & a friend recommend I ask around here if anybody knows of a Durban source of bio-diesel we can tap into when we’re there? That or bulk used cooking oil which we can recycle. [...]

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Parkhurst Prawns

By on March 12, 2012 in insects

I live down the road from parkhurst in jozi and have found one or two of these bad boys in our garden and home. Initially I freaked out and was quite disgusted by these huge jumping cockroaches and then I wiki’d them…here is the description (good for gardening) – The Parktown prawn aka Parkmore prawn [...]

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