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Watsonia humilis
Watsonia humilis is a beautiful late-spring flowering cormous plant endemic to the southwestern Cape. Although highly threatened in the wild, successful...
Watsonia canaliculata
Watsonia canaliculata is a lovely small, purplish-pink flowering Watsonia with unusual erect, grooved leaves. Rare and restricted to the...
Watsonia borbonica
This magnificent bulbous plant with tall spikes of rose-pink, trumpet-shaped flowers makes a picturesque display, flowering for up to 4 or 5 weeks - a...
Watsonia angusta
This beautiful plant, with striking red flowers, grows from an underground corm. It has light green leaves shaped like a sword. The plant is useful...
Wardia hygrometrica
Wardia hygrometrica is an aquatic moss restricted to the mountains of the Western Cape. It belongs to the Wardiaceae, the only endemic moss family in...
Warburgia salutaris
This tree is a priority species for conservation and cultivation in gardens, as it is over-harvested in the wild for medicinal use and is a very popular...
Waltheria indica
Waltheria indica with its soft little yellow flowers and zig-zag-edged leaves, can be pruned into an attractive, bushy and hardy pot plant....
Wahlenbergia undulata
A special delight for the summer garden is Wahlenbergia undulata with its soft mauve bells dancing on long slender stems....
Wahlenbergia cuspidata
Wahlenbergia cuspidata is a bushy, perennial herb with large, showy, cup-shaped flowers, from summer-rainfall regions of South Africa....
Wahlenbergia capensis
Wahlenbergia capensis, the Cape bluebell, is a member of the Campanulaceae (the bellflower family). Its showy flowers start appearing from early spring,...
Wachendorfia thyrsiflora
Wachendorfia thyrsiflora with its large golden flower spikes is very striking when in flower....
Wachendorfia brachyandra
This is a long-lived and free-flowering species, ideal for a sunny rockery....