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Find homes for your plants with planting posts

Find homes for your plants with planting posts

Shopping for the perfect planting pots is like hunting down a good pair of shoes. They need to offer support, match their surroundings and...
Avondale Wine Estate (Paarl) opens its private gardens this October

Avondale Wine Estate (Paarl) opens its private gardens this October with...

Situated outside Paarl, on the slopes of the Klein Drakenstein mountains, Avondale Wine Estate is home to some of the most luscious and abundantly...

How to plant a shade container

It is not at all impossible to grow a beautifully lush garden in the shade, you just need to know what you are doing,...

When and how to plant seedlings

Growing your own plants from seeds is a rewarding and profoundly empowering experience, especially if the plants you are growing are vegetables. But many...
5 garden mistakes that spoil our gardens

5 garden mistakes that spoil our gardens

If you have set up gardening goals but have no idea where to begin. Start by finding out what not to do. Anyone who has taken...
These top 5 indoor plants are the best for clean air in your home

Are you aware of the daily toxins you are inhaling? These...

Stop paying for pricey purifiers! Find yourself looking at expensive purifiers to help get that clean air in your home, stop looking. Turns out you can...
10 common plants poisonous to pets

10 common plants poisonous to pets

As a pet owner and someone who loves being in the garden, growing all sorts of interesting plants, it is important to know which...
Companion gardening

Companion gardening: What & Why

Companion gardening is a practice that has been around for ages. Gardeners of all kinds, including those who have just been introduced to companion...
Gardening with your children

Gardening with your children

One of the best ways to teach children something, is to teach them by example. Having your children in the garden with you, teaching...
Compost, fertilizer, and soil in the right proportions

Compost, fertilizer, soil – What’s the difference?

They are three well-known products in the gardener’s world, and each could not be more different from the next. And yet when compost, fertilizer,...
Adding a garden office to your outdoor space

4 reasons why you should consider adding a garden office to...

Using your garden for different means of productivity could be the game changer. The world as we know it, has changed for most of us...
A brief history of tulips

A brief history of tulips

The tulip is a flowering plant of the family Liliaceous. It is native to the region known as Eurasia, which includes Europe and Asia. Tulips...