Seeing Scabiosa africana on the mountain, the first thought is that it must have escaped from a garden nearby. With its big mauve flowers and soft leaves,...

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Members of the sage family are known worldwide as excellent herbs and beautiful garden plants. Salvia chamelaeagnea, which grows wild in the south western...

This striking agapanthus with its compact head of drooping, dark violet blue flowers is always commented on when first seen. The buds as they emerge seem...

A special delight for the summer garden is Wahlenbergia undulata with its soft mauve bells dancing on long slender stems....

When hiking up Table Mountain in midsummer to find the red disa, Disa uniflora, in flower, one is sure to also see the brilliant red crassula, Crassula...

With attractive brick red flowers from December onwards this scrambling shrub is a summer delight in many gardens....

The drooping agapanthus is an attractive, tuberous plant which occurs naturally in open grassland and on forest margins. ...

This plant explodes into flower, producing huge orange-red flower balls in mid to late summer, it's a plant for semi-shade or shade in well-watered,...

Cunonia capensis is a beautiful evergreen garden tree which attracts insects to its flowers....