August in the Garden #Springflowers
22 Monday Aug 2016
Tag Archives: Flowers
If you want to be HAPPY
20 Monday Oct 2014
Posted in Flowers
Vygies
12 Sunday Oct 2014
Vygies – or mesembryanthemums – are truly South Africa’s most colourful plant group. Their silky-textured flowers – in just about every colour of the rainbow – will give an extraordinary luminosity to any border.
Plant vygies in a sunny, well-drained position. Where drainage is a problem, rockeries and north and west-facing slopes are ideal sites. Vygies thrive in many different soil types, and need little nourishment. Perennial vygies can be planted at any time of the year.
Dog Rose
30 Tuesday Sep 2014
Tags
Dog Rose, dogberry, Flowers, health, hedging, Hildesheim Rose, plants, rabid dogs, Rosa canina, thorny creeper, witches" briar
Dog Rose – Rosa canina The Dog rose is a sprawling, fast growing, thorny creeper making it a very good security climber and hedging.
In the 18th and 19th century it was used as a cure for rabid dogs, hence the name Dog Rose. Other old folk names include dogberry and witches’ briar.
The fruit is noted for its high vitamin C level and is used to make syrup, tea and marmalade. It has been grown or encouraged in the wild for the production of vitamin C, from its fruit (often as rose-hip syrup), especially during conditions of scarcity or during wartime.
The dog rose was the stylized rose of medieval European heraldry. It is also the county flower of Hampshire. Legend states the Thousand-year Rose or Hildesheim Rose, that climbs against a wall of Hildesheim Cathedral dates back to the establishment of the diocese in 815.
Spring Equinox
22 Monday Sep 2014
Posted in Cape Town, Eco Tourism, Flowers
Tags
Cape Town, environment, Flowers, nature, photography, plants, quote, Spring
Spring is when life is alive in everything.
Christina Rossetti
Fuchsia Gardening tip
22 Monday Sep 2014
Ariston’s “Best of the Best” in Spring
19 Friday Sep 2014
Dog Rose on the fence
Pots at the end of Dunluce Ave supplied by Alan Dawson Gardens
Dog Rose
Bulbs in pots under the Chevron
Lemon tree flowering
Nasturtiums
The Harfielder’s bean are flowering
Workshop garden
the plants in the ZTL garden
Borage growing wild
The pajama bush in full flower (Lobostemon)
Fennel growing wild
Happy in the garden
Indian Hawthorn
16 Tuesday Sep 2014
Tags
bees, birds, bonsai, Butterflies, Flowers, Indian Hawthorn, plants, Raphiolepis, shrub
Indian Hawthorn
Raphiolepis
Indian Hawthorn is a hardy sun-loving shrub which is in flower now. It is grown for it’s popular pink flowers and used extensively in Bonsai culture.
It is often trimmed to create hedges, or ball standards. It is attractive to bees, butterflies and birds
Dead – Head your Pansies!
11 Thursday Sep 2014
Pastel pinks and Blues on the mountain
09 Tuesday Sep 2014
Posted in Cape Town, Colours, Eco Tourism, Flowers, South African Endemic
Tags
Cape Town, environment, Erica Baccans, Flowers, Lobostemon, nature, photography, plants, South African endemic plant
Erica Baccans and Lobostemon growing wild on the mountain
Lobostemon
