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Veltheimia bracteata
Veltheimia bracteata is a beautiful deciduous bulb with a moderate to fast growth rate. The inflorescence is a dense raceme of tubular flowers carried...
Acokanthera oppositifolia
The Bushman's poison is a medium to large woody shrub with attractive hard dark green leaves. ...
Hermannia saccifera
Hermannia saccifera is fairly widespread along the southern coast of South Africa, where it occurs on stony clay slopes from the Riviersonderend mountains...
Clivia miniata
A striking plant, an international star, with its dark green leaves and trumpet-shaped orange flowers, Clivia miniata is the ideal plant for the...
Elegia tectorum
This restio makes a most attractive garden plant, and can be used for thatching....
Erica cerinthoides
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Felicia echinata
Felicia echinata is easy to recognize by its glossy leaves that are edged with small white teeth and curved to form a sharp tip. This prickly protection...
Buddleja salviifolia
This small tree is deliciously scented in early spring....
Protea neriifolia
Protea neriifolia is an excellent plant for the garden and an outstanding and long lasting cut flower....
Aloe striata
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Ptaeroxylon obliquum
Ptaeroxylon (pronounced 'teroxillon') is a direct Greek translation meaning sneeze and wood; obliquum refers to the oblique leaflets. Umtata in...
Loxostylis alata
A small, well-shaped tree with glossy foliage tinged with red when young and masses of white flowers in early summer, and if the tree is a female it has...
Coleonema aspalathoides
Coleonema aspalathoides forms a dense upright shrub, 0.5 - 1 m tall. Bright pink, star-shaped flowers, 8-10 mm in diameter, are borne singly but in profusion...
Aloe ferox
This is one of the best known South african plants with a long history of medicinal use. An attractive form of Aloe ferox is found in KwaZulu-Natal,...
Cotyledon barbeyi
This is an easy to grow succulent plant with attractive shiny red flowers....
Chasmanthe floribunda 'Duckittii'
Chasmanthe floribunda ''Duckittii' is an attractive deciduous, winter-growing, cormous geophyte with fresh green sword-shaped leaves and spikes...
Protea cynaroides
Surely the best known protea, prized worldwide as a magnificent cut flower and in South Africa honoured as the national flower....
Aloe pluridens
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Hypoestes aristata var. aristata 'Purple Haze'
This is a special form of the popular ribbon bush Hypoestes aristata which is a garden stalwart....
Erica baueri subsp. baueri
Erica baueri subsp. baueri is one of the most popular and widely cultivated of the South African species. It is one of the few ericas that regularly...