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Wild Dagga for Eczema?

By on November 6, 2012 in flowers, indigenous, medicinal

Can anyone help Avashnee and her son out? mol-d Hello, I came across your website, and was wondering about  Wild Dagga (Leonotis Leonurus). I have a son who is suffering from very bad Eczema and many people told me to get him to bathe in this? Please could you let me know. Thanks, Avashnee Manickum

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Pruning tips and tricks

By on July 9, 2009 in garden

A while back Sonya asked my advice on pruning her Wild Dagga.  “Hack it down close to the base,” I told her and I have now taken a couple of pics to illustrate what I meant. I must stress that this isn’t professional advice and there may be a better way of pruning but it [...]

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Steps to an indigenous garden..

By on June 16, 2009 in garden, indigenous

I recently visited my friend’s mom who has an almost entirely indigenous garden, transformed in just three years and last year named ‘Runner Up – Best Indigenous Garden’ in the Pam Golding Properties/Home Loans from Absa Gardens of Pride competition. Creating an indigenous garden can be a daunting task. I have taken a load of [...]

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Wild dagga gone wild!

By on May 16, 2009 in flowers, indigenous

This is a follow-on from Sonya’s earlier post, showing my wild dagga flowering profusely.  I also started with a small twig of a plant which has now  grown into this great bush.

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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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