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International First Love Day

International First Love Day

By on May 15, 2009 in garden

Today is the first International First Love Day over at BridgetMcNulty.com.  As this is a gardening blog, I’ll stick to the first plant I loved and the first plant which got me into gardening, a little cactus I blogged about a few months ago. What were the first plant(s) that got you interested in gardening?

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Leonotis Leonurus

By on May 14, 2009 in garden

A rather beautiful name for a somewhat sparse green bush that Roger has accused of being a ‘weed’. However, in the last few days Leonotis (as we’ll call her) has been pushing out furry orange spider legs from her green foliage and making quite a show of herself.  Some call her lion’s tail, another site [...]

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Garden Essentials: Fly-trap

By on May 11, 2009 in garden

Durban in the summer is hot, humid and wet – the perfect weather for a plague of flies.   Which is why each year I buy one of these nifty fly-traps and hang it in a tree.  The trap is an ingenious design, with a funneled entrance which makes it easy for the fly to enter [...]

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Wilds of Westville – taking back the suburbs

By on May 1, 2009 in flowers, garden, indigenous

A friend of mine lives in central Westville, fairly close to the freeway and the Pavillion but has the good fortune of a house that is built near a river valley, which means that the land has not been developed. We went exploring downstream and found a clearing that is a world away from the Pav (see [...]

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Permaculture course

By on April 28, 2009 in food, garden, sustainability

On Saturday I attended a permaculture workshop at the Durban Botanic Gardens run by Bharathi Tugh and her husband Reggie. Both are experienced permaculturists and work extensively with schools in KwaZulu-Natal through the Woolworths Eduplant Trust and Food & Trees for Africa. The workshop was well attended and dealt with some fascinating topics, including the [...]

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