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Scabiosa drakensbergensis
A bushy scabiosa with large soft green leaves and beautiful, pure white, ball-like inflorescences with flowers packed tightly at the tips of long delicate...
Rhoicissus digitata
This member of the grape family is an attractive hardy creeper with shiny three- or five-partite leaves. It is traditionally used to make jam and also...
Nerine filifolia
This floriferous summer-growing plant produces delicate, bright pink flowers which bring a magnificent colourful display to your garden towards the end...
Ornithogalum dubium
Ornithogalum dubium is a long-blooming, showy plant with beautiful large flowers, ideal for growing in pots, and as a cut flower....
Dialium schlechteri
This very attractive forest tree, with shiny leaves and mottled white bark, will appeal to every tree lover in South Africa....
Ruschia maxima
Ruschia maxima is one of the largest species in its genus. It has characteristically larger leaves than most other vygies and is crowned as the giant...
Leucadendron strobilinum
Leucadendron strobilinum is an eye-catching shrub that is ideal for display in a fynbos garden....
Coddia rudis
Coddia rudis is usually a short, aromatic, evergreen, dense, multi-stemmed and fairly fast growing shrub....
Lachenalia lutea
Lachenalia lutea is a heavily sweet-scented indigenous hyacinth with pale to bright yellow flowers....
Citrullus lanatus
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Coleus grandidentatus
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Barleria senensis
A hardy indigenous plant suitable for any sunny spot in your garden....
Senecio macrocephalus
Senecio macrocephalus is one of the first large pink-flowered senecios to flower in the grassveld in early spring and often shows up as large patches...
Aloe chlorantha
Aloe chlorantha is a medium-sized aloe from Fraserburg in the Karoo, at once distinguished by its erect solitary inflorescence, up to 1.6 m high,...
Withania somnifera
Fruits of this plant were found in a floral collar of the innermost coffin of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. (Mabberley 2008 : 911)....
Erica clavisepala
Erica clavisepala is a rare decorative little heath, well suited to fynbos gardens and those on the sandy flats....
Haemanthus canaliculatus
In late summer or early autumn, after fires have swept through some of the swampy areas near the sea in the Hangklip area, you may be lucky enough to see...
Erica shannonii
Erica shannonii is one of the most spectacular ericas with its long porcelain-white flowers arranged in clusters at the ends of its branches....
Watsonia vanderspuyiae
Watsonia vanderspuyiae is a robust geophyte with bright red tubular flowers. It attracts sunbirds and is an ideal candidate for large fynbos gardens,...
Harveya squamosa
Harveya squamosa is a strange root parasite, commonly seen with the whole plant coloured a glorious red to orange or, rarely, all sulphur yellow,...