Mulch Love
Garden Reviews and Visits
The Hibiscus or Queen of the Flowers is commonplace in KZN, so much so that part of our southern coast is named after this flower. But the most common species of Hibiscus in South Africa, Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, otherwise known as Chinese Hibiscus, originates from South-East Asia. Interestingly, the Hibiscus is the national flower of Malaysia where … Read more
So, as you may have guessed from the title, this post is not about a plant but rather a kingfisher I spotted in the garden this morning. The photographs are not the best as I don’t have much of a zoom lens and as soon as I got close to him he flew away.
But nonetheless, it is pretty great having a bird such as this in my garden. There must be some kind of food he eats around – slugs, beetles?
Apologies for my blog slackness. The aloes in our garden are a magnificent display of orange at the moment and I absolutely had to do a post about them. They really are flaunting it. Not quite sure which exact aloes these little babies are – but they sure are beautiful…
In an earlier post, my brother lamented the scourge of syringa berry trees in Durban. In the comments section it was suggested that strangler figs could be used to combat them. I regularly jog down Manning Road and spotted a strangler fig at work on a Flamboyant.
My brother has grown two coral trees from seed and Kirsty has volunteered to give them a good home (I already have three in my garden). It really is an easy tree to propagate and is very rewarding in your garden. It has beautiful, bright red flowers each spring (which attract the sunbirds) and loses … Read more