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Wooden Flowery Growth

By on June 29, 2011 in flowers, indigenous, tree

Good morning We went camping at Thaba Monate near Warmbaths when we saw this round wooden flowery growth on a thorny tree with silver green velvety leaves. My brother in law climbed into the tree, pick it and then cleaned it with his pocket knife and a brush, painted some veneer on and mounted it. [...]

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Moraea vuvuzela

By on May 19, 2011 in flowers, indigenous

I found this article the other day… almost a year on from the World Cup. Cool name, don’t you think? A new species from the iris family found near Worcester, is to be named Moraea vuvuzela by SANBI botanist Dr John Manning to commemorate South Africa’s hosting of the first Soccer World Cup on the [...]

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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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