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Spring has sprung!

By on April 21, 2011 in flowers

We’re having glorious weather in London this month, so into the garden we go for the start of this year’s planting: seedboxes all planted up and safe in the greenhouse in case the temperature drops at night; a luminous Helleborus; a couldn’t-resist-it Rose and Ivory Aquilegia (sorry for the poor quality of the photo): and [...]

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Cape Red

By on April 12, 2011 in flowers

This plant is all over the Cape but I can’t say I know what it is as there is another quite similar. It has these great little red flowers when it blooms… Who knows?

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Protecting South Africa’s rare indigenous plants

By on March 30, 2011 in environment, flowers, indigenous, succulent, sustainability

The Department of Environmental Affairs has given the assurance that concrete measures are being put in place to protect the country’s rare indigenous plant species from extinction. This comes after Minister Edna Molewa was asked in the National Assembly what the department was doing to counter the “unprecedented extinction rates” of those species. Molewa said [...]

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We survived the winter!

By on March 25, 2011 in flowers, garden

Definitely a spring day in London today – what a lovely feeling to hang washing outside! I’m WFH (working from home) which as we all know can be code for SKIVING (well only a little bit you have to take a break don’t you?) which means I’m outside in my jams (another side effect of [...]

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LIL KIM MINIATURE HIBISCUS

By on March 16, 2011 in flowers, garden

Is the above available in South Africa? Sharon  

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