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Drimia filifolia
Drimia filifolia is an attractive plant, flowering in spring up to early summer and is an asset to any garden. This article will provide some insight into...
Geissorhiza eurystigma
Geissorhiza eurystigma is one of the few species in its genus with such large and colourful flowers. The combination of purple and red is indeed a beautiful...
Cotula duckittiae
This adorable orange flowered annual normally heralds the beginning of spring when it starts flowering in September....
Androstachys johnsonii
Lebombo-ironwood is an evergreen tree which occurs in hot savannas; it is reputed for its hard and long-lasting wood. Many strong structures around the...
Gonioma kamassi
A small, unusual and rewarding, rounded, evergreen shrub with fragrant white or pale yellow flowers that are produced in small clusters at the ends of...
Heteropyxis canescens
The forest lavender tree is an evergreen to semi-deciduous, attractive small tree. It deserves to be utilised more in gardens and landscapes, due to its...
Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum
The wild cotton plant, Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum, is often only noticed when in fruit or when bearings its hibiscus-like flowers....
Pteronia stricta
Pteronia stricta is an upright shrub with showy yellow flower heads that appear almost throughout the year....
Cotula turbinata
Cotula turbinata is a pretty, early flowering annual that can be seen popping up in grassy patches along sidewalks and other moist open places throughout...
Leucospermum prostratum
Leucospermum prostratum forms a charismatic, trailing carpet with scented, bright yellow, apricot, and then red flowers....
Monsonia glauca
This is a perennial herb with a woody base growing in scrubby grassland....
Roella glomerata
Roella glomerata with its large, white to pale blue flowers, is the only member of the South African endemic genus, Roella that is found...
Diospyros scabrida var. cordata
This lovely little tree has three outstanding features to recommend it; its compact growth habit, its gorgeous glossy foliage and its unusual balloon fruit...
Isolepis
The genus Isolepis R.Br. comprises about 76 species. Members in the genus Isolepis mostly occur in the temperate regions of the southern...
Caputia scaposa
This is a short, drought tolerant, succulent shrublet, belonging to the daisy family (Asteraceae), with showy, spreading leaves in a central rosette and...
Oldenburgia paradoxa
Oldenburgia paradoxa is an unusual cushion-shaped species of the daisy family that grows on rocks in the Cape mountains and looks like an alpine plant....
Antidesma venosum
This is an evergreen to semi-deciduous shrub or small tree with a dense, rounded crown, flowers in long, thin catkins that attract insects and insect-eating...
Wahlenbergia cuspidata
Wahlenbergia cuspidata is a bushy, perennial herb with large, showy, cup-shaped flowers, from summer-rainfall regions of South Africa....
Leucadendron eucalyptifolium
Leucadendron eucalyptifolium is a decorative, fast-growing fynbos shrub that turns bright yellow in winter-spring....
Serruria fasciflora
Serruria fasciflora is a beautiful shrublet that produces sweetly scented, silvery pink flowers all year round; definitely a very rewarding garden...