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Blushing Beauties – Harness the Power of Pink

January 28, 2021 10:54 am Published by Hotspot Digital

Summer gardens are potentially the brightest and showiest of all the seasons. Plant growth is rapid and the results areRead More...

Violas

August 7, 2020 12:43 pm Published by Stephani Green

Violas are irresistible. They are petite, fragrant, flowers without any fuss and come in every colour of the rainbow. WhatRead More...

Dianthus

April 2, 2020 2:47 pm Published by Stephani Green

Dianthus needs to be added to the list of garden toughies that are water-wise, don’t mind neglect and outlast mostRead More...

Beacon Impatiens

August 26, 2019 2:00 pm Published by Hotspot Digital

Welcome back summer’s best-loved flowers for shade. The fast-filling bedding Impatiens Walleriana, which all but vanished from summer shade gardens,Read More...

6 Flowers to Plant Now For a Spectacular Spring

February 18, 2019 8:00 am Published by Hotspot Digital

Read in Afrikaans Many of the most important spring flowers need to be planted out as young seedlings in autumn.Read More...

Beat the heat

January 15, 2019 11:55 am Published by Hotspot Digital

Help your Roses to Keep their Cool • Hot nights bother the roses more than the heat during the day.Read More...

Exuberant sun lovers

February 19, 2018 2:07 pm Published by Hotspot Digital

We picked a large pot and filled it with some exuberant sun lovers to lead you joyfully through the quietRead More...

Potted Spring

February 16, 2018 11:05 am Published by Hotspot Digital

To celebrate spring and inspire you to play with colour, Tanya and I spent a happy, flower-filled afternoon in herRead More...

A cheery winter trio

February 16, 2018 10:36 am Published by kablooeymonsters

Colourful winter annuals and perennials are not scarce at this time of the year. We went shopping and found lotsRead More...

Boxed-in Summer

February 8, 2018 2:45 pm Published by Hotspot Digital

It’s high summer and the nurseries are filled to the brim with pots and punnets of annuals and perennials inRead More...

Senecio elegans

January 11, 2018 1:02 pm Published by Hotspot Digital

Wild Cineraria Senecio is a member of the Asteraceae (daisy) family, which is the second largest family of flowering plantsRead More...

Malcolmia maritima

January 8, 2018 11:06 am Published by Hotspot Digital

Virginia Stock, French Forget-me-Not As gardeners, we are always in search of fragrance so it’s a mystery why the sweetly-scented VirginianRead More...

Lobelia

January 8, 2018 8:32 am Published by Hotspot Digital

There are very few flowers that can match the true blue of Lobelia. For connoisseurs of blue there’s even aRead More...

Geranium incanum

December 20, 2017 8:32 am Published by kablooeymonsters

Carpet Geraniums True Geraniums or Crane’s Bills – from the Greek word geranos, a crane, owing to its fruit whichRead More...

Arctotis Acaulis and Stoechadifolia

December 15, 2017 9:10 am Published by Hotspot Digital

African Daisy, Gousblom, Silver Arctotis, Kusgousblom Arctotis is a fairly large genus of about sixty species within the daisy familyRead More...

Antirrhinum Majus

December 13, 2017 3:04 pm Published by kablooeymonsters

The ‘Snapdragon’ For gardeners wanting an easy growing winter annual it is worth re-stating all the good qualities of AntirrhinumRead More...

Gardening Tips for May

May 1, 2017 6:18 am Published by kablooeymonsters

Tidy flower beds and remove collapsed plants and cut back anything that needs it. Clear remaining annuals and debris. PlantRead More...

Cinerarias by any other name

April 19, 2016 11:55 pm Published by kablooeymonsters

This beautiful flowering plant with daisy flowers in a spectacular range of bright colours is still affectionately called cinerarias byRead More...

Silybum marianum

January 14, 2016 12:25 pm Published by Hotspot Digital

Milk Thistle The spectacular Milk Thistle is huge, eye-catching and drought tolerant! Its massive rosette of white-marbled, seriously prickly, deeplyRead More...