This plant came up in a friend’s garden. Could someone please identify for me. I think it is exotic so it doesn’t matter where it came up but for interest’s sake I live in Durbanville , Cape Town.  Hot dry summers, wet winters. This photo was taken late August, which is still very cold and [...]

I was recently up in the Midlands for work and we stopped off at the Caversham Press, a writers and artists retreat.  This amazing tree was in their courtyard, heavy with pink flowers.  Does anyone recognise it?  Could it possibly be indigenous? More on the Press at www.cavershamcentre.org.

One of the lessons I’ve learnt from writing this blog is to always keep a record of the names of plants you buy from nurseries.  I think the next time I create a garden I will write down each plant in a little black book. Anyway, I got this plant from the Fig Tree Nursery [...]