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Vachellia karroo
Known for many years as Acacia karroo, this is one of South Africa's most beautiful and useful trees. It is integrally part of our country's history...
Hebenstretia dura
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Bauhinia bowkeri
A tall, graceful shrub with arching stems, decorative rounded foliage and fragrant white flowers in early summer, best in warm, dry gardens where frost...
Aloe verecunda
Aloe verecunda, with its striking orange-red flowers and grasslike leaves, is an attractive deciduous grassland aloe....
Ocimum labiatum
A stunning drought-hardy ornamental shrub which thrives in full sun or partial shade, flowering prolifically from early summer to late autumn....
Calodendrum capense
Calodendrum capense, a beautiful tree from the Cape, the name says it all: kalos means beautiful, and dendron is Greek for tree, capense is...
Wachendorfia thyrsiflora
Wachendorfia thyrsiflora with its large golden flower spikes is very striking when in flower....
Plumbago auriculata
Plumbago is an extremely reliable, resilient plant which has been popular for home gardens as well as for commercial landscapes for many years. Plumbago...
Gomphostigma virgatum
Gomphostigma virgatum is a beautiful, evergreen, perennial shrub that can grow up to 2,6m high....
Aulax umbellata
A slender shrub with bright yellow flowerheads contrasting vividly with the purplish brown young foliage around the flowerheads during summer....
Geranium incanum
The Carpet Geranium is an ideal garden plant. It spreads and forms a dense carpet approximately 300 mm thick and flowers almost all year round with a peak...
Diascia integerrima
This lovely delicate plant is a jewel in the garden for it flowers abundantly throughout the summer....
Grewia occidentalis
This attractive indigenous shrub has a wide natural distribution....
Erica ventricosa
Erica ventricosa, with its exquisite flowers and dense, compact habit, is one of the most attractive of the Erica species. ...
Elegia fistulosa
Elegia fistulosa is a tall, grass-like plant, decorative nearly all year round, low-maintenance, easy and rewarding to grow....
Syncolostemon transvaalensis
Syncolostemon transvaalensis is decorative, pleasantly aromatic and easy to grow....
Zantedeschia aethiopica
Zantedeschia aethiopica is an old fashioned, but very rewarding garden plant....
Watsonia marginata
Watsonia marginata is a very pretty plant, with attractive foliage and gorgeous spikes of cup-shaped pink or white flowers. It is easily distinguished...
Maerua cafra
This is an unusual, very attractive little tree, especially when covered in fragrant white flowers in early spring. You may need to be patient...