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Elegia stipularis
Elegia stipularis is a colourful and delicate low-growing and water-wise restio that can be used to enliven any garden....
Disa tripetaloides
Disa tripetaloides is a terrestrial evergreen orchid with beautiful white flowers. It grows along perennial mountain streams and on damp mountain slopes...
Dietes iridioides
Dietes iridioides is not common in residential gardens and landscapes, yet it is considered a good garden subject....
Diospyros dichrophylla
Diospyros dichrophylla is not as well known as some of members of the genus such as the oriental persimmon (D. kaki ), a lovely edible fruit...
Aloe pearsonii
Aloe pearsonii is a very distinctive aloe with its almost perfectly arranged vertical rows of leaves that cover the slender stems like a long narrow skirt....
Freylinia crispa
The attractive purple flowers of the Kouga bell-bush will brighten up your garden....
Barleria elegans
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Serruria florida
The delicate beauty of Serruria florida justifies its recognition as the most beautiful of the genus....
Ursinia sericea
Ursinia sericea is an attractive, easy-to-grow perennial, adding texture and silver highlights to the garden....
Bulbine narcissifolia
The grey-green, laxly twisted leaves and compact inflorescence of yellow flowers and white bracts covering the flower buds, make the strap-leaved bulbine, Bulbine...
Lachenalia sargeantii
Lachenalia sargeantii is a striking, early summer-flowering plant with pendulous, tubular ivory blooms marked with apple-green, bright pinkish magenta...
Barleria mackenii
Barleria mackenii is a medium-sized shrub with mauve, tubular flowers which appear from February to June....
Crassula arborescens
Unlike most crassulas which are relatively small succulent plants, Crassula arborescens is an outstanding, squat, succulent tree that is easily recognizable...
Brachystelma modestum
The name modestum appears well deserved by this diminutive species of Brachystelma since the flowers are so astonishingly attractive, while the plant...
Cryptocarya wyliei
Cryptocarya wyliei is a beautiful ornamental tree, easily grown from seed, with bright red edible fruit scattered among the tiny green leaves....
Aloe marlothii
Aloe marlothii is a striking, robust, large, single-stemmed aloe with a majestic presence. The mountain aloe is without doubt one of southern Africa's...
Albuca nelsonii
Albuca nelsonii may be found in specialist collections but it is not often seen in gardens. Yet it has attractive flowers, and it is considered a good...
Jamesbrittenia breviflora
Jamesbrittenia breviflora grows wild in the Drakensberg and has beautiful reddish-purple flowers with a bright lemon-yellow centre....
Wahlenbergia capensis
Wahlenbergia capensis, the Cape bluebell, is a member of the Campanulaceae (the bellflower family). Its showy flowers start appearing from early spring,...
Aloe challisii
Aloe challisii is a charming new cliff-dwelling aloe from the Steenkampsberg in Mpumlanga Province. It is easily grown from cuttings and thrives as...