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Best in bloom..

By on August 9, 2009 in flowers, garden, indigenous, tree

Coral trees are flowering all over Durban at the moment. We have posted on the ease with which they can be grown from seed and the speed at which they grow but the winter months reveal their full glory – leafless with striking orange-red flowers.

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Another indigenous gem..

By on June 20, 2009 in garden, indigenous, tree

As a follow on from Niall’s post on coral trees, http://sprig.co.za/2009/04/baby-coral-trees/, and the continuing series on introducing indigenous plants to your garden (see post below), get some coral trees! As Niall says, they are very easy to propagate - the babies in his post (and two others) came from this tree (see pic), which I planted as a [...]

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