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Reasons Succulents Are The Best Plants Ever!
They are low maintenancethey come in all kinds of coloursThey're fat and happyThey like hanging out!They can live in teacups or anywhere elsethey regularly have babiesYou can use their cuttings to make...
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The succulent grows in symmetry
The succulent grows in symmetry,Budding as a flower,Reaching for moisture,And sunlight every hour,She waits in peace for loving,Someone to grow beside,Hopeful in the waiting,With no shade to hide...
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Hooray! My Cycad is flushing!
In April this year (2016), I was worried about my Cycad (Cycas revoluta (Sago Palm), afraid that it was dying because all the leaves started lying down flat. I got a lovely comment from "A" at that...
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Cycad up-date (Cycas revoluta)
It has been just 6 weeks since I posted pics of my cycad flushing after I had been terribly worried that he might be dying, and look at him now! He seems to have almost doubled in size and is looking...
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Summer-time is Echeveria time
I’ve been absent from the world, lost in the beauty of my sunny front yard garden. Too much work, a whole lot of plants, and life goes on. And the Echeverias (E. elegans) are flowering! A sure sign of...
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Starting over (or not?)
How have you all been? Had a good Christmas and New Year? 2016 has been a year full of joys, blessings, surprises, heartaches, love, some successes and a few failures, but mostly it has been a year...
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Gettin' caught in the rain
After months of drought, few experiences can match the sound and smell of falling rain – unless it is the exhilaration of being caught in it during a mid-morning walk on our smallholding. The past...
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Up-date on the Dustbin Chicks
How time flies! The days, weeks and years just blur into one another and since I posted about the Dustbin chicks last year, I was asked about them and realised that I had not done an up-date on their...
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Nature's simple pleasures
“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.” ~Henry David Thoreau And beauty will become...
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Water-wise gardening
Image creditIf you are into conservation and in particular water conservation, I have found this great article on water-wise gardening on the Indigenous Gardener's website. The article states that,...
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My Marigold kitchen
Just outside my dining room I have this wonderful clump of Marigolds (Tagetes). The flowers are tasty, fresh and couldn’t be more local: straight from the garden! There are some cookbooks out now which...
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Summer's end
Autumn struck with a vengeance this year. I say 'with a vengeance', because it's more like winter! We're having extremely cold days, like 20℃, where are the balmy 24℃ and 25℃ temperatures? This will...
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Planning a garden
Ink sketch and colour wash - A corner in my garden How do you go about planning a new garden or adding something new to your existing garden?When I started my garden way back in 2004, the first thing I...
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First Aloe ferox flowers for the season!
I am so excited! Early already this winter has been freezing and I've been afraid that I won't have any Aloes flowering this season. And yet, here it is! My first flowers for the season! This fairly...
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Clivias, and Bronchitis
My Clivias flowered right through winter (weird, right?) and some of the flowers show a bit of frost damage.The later flowers, like the ones below that started flowering last week, are a gorgeous...
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Our summer rains are here!
05:00h - Oh, how joyous! Our summer rains are here! Had 10mm yesterday and the garden is smiling! Listening to the sound of the rain on our roof at the moment - applauding every drop - nothing better...
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Please don't go away!
I know I've been awfully quiet over the past few weeks, but there's a very good reason for that. As you may (or may not!) know, our smallholding has been up for sale for the past year and twice we've...
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I've waited 13 years for this!
Male cone of Cycas revolutaMy Cycad - Cycas revoluta (Sago Palm), which now proves to be a male, has produced a cone! OMG! For 13 years I've been waiting for this event and it happens now that I'm a...
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Today ...
It has been 8 weeks since we sold our smallholding in Gauteng and moved down to the North Coast of KwaZulu Natal (South Africa) (ONLY 6 weeks??!! feels like a life-time!) and it has taken me all this...
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