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LAST OPEN DAY AT ARISTON ELEMENTAL ORGANIC GARDENS IN CLAREMONT
16 Monday Feb 2015
Posted in Cape Town
Ariston Elemental Organic Garden
OPEN DAY – Saturday 21 February 2015
Time : 1000 until 1400
Address : Cnr of Malone and Dunluce Avenue, Claremont.
There are a large number of plants which can be propagated from cuttings. Some of there are Dog Rose, Pelargonium, Plectranthus, Pig’s Ears, Portulacaria, Lavender, Rosemary, Hibiscus, Eriocephalus (Wild Rosemary) Agave, Artemisia Afra and many more.
There is a large selection of landscaping rocks available . Many different sizes and types.
1000lt water tank complete with fittings.
3 Old baths which have been used for worm farming.
large selection of recycled logs – ideal for fire wood.
TERMS : CASH ON THE DAY. ALL GOODS MUST BE REMOVED FROM SITE THE SAME DAY, UNLESS ARRANGEMENTS ARE MADE.
Dog Rose cuttings – easy to propagate
lots of pots with different plants to sale
Cuttings of large Yucca
Aloes – open ground
Plakkies – open ground
Landscaping stone. Many different sizes and types
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
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
Pincushions
28 Thursday Aug 2014
Posted in Colours, Flowers, South African Endemic
Satynblom
27 Wednesday Aug 2014
Posted in Bulbs, Colours, Flowers, South African Endemic
Tags
bulb, Clania glenlyonensis, Flowers, Monkey Beetle, Namaqualand, nature, photography, plants, Pollen, pollinator, Romulea Momadelpha, Satynblom, South African endemic plant
The Satynblom is a stemless geophyte occuring in the Hantam Karoo
The lovely large glossy red flowers (hence the common namesatynblom), have black markings on the inside and anther filaments that are fused into a column.
The Monkey Beetle (Clania glenlyonensis) ” is a main pollinator of Romulea monadelpha and within the Hantam National Botanical Garden. It also visits a range of other flowers, and because of its rapid and busy flight, high loads of pollen carried on its hairy body, and large numbers, it is considered a keystone pollinator.
Satyn Flower
Romulea monadelpha
