The most expensive garden in the world is the one you don't have time to look after. The cheapest garden in the world is the one that looks after itself. The trick is to get the second one. Most of the time spent in a typical South African garden is unnecessary. The lawn you have…
A North West garden in October is a wind tunnel. The sun is hot, the soil is dry, and the wind off the Kalahari sand lifts everything that isn't tied down. Plastic bags, leaves, the neighbour's newspaper, dust from the construction site two streets over, all of it ends up in your garden. The plant…
The Free State has the cleanest skies and the most neglected gardens in the country. Bloemfontein, Welkom, Bethlehem, the small dorps: gardeners here know the wind, the frost, the dry summers, and the iron-rich soil that turns clay a deep orange. They also know that the easiest way to keep a garden tidy is to…
Kimberley got 90mm of rain last year. Upington got 110. Springbok got 80. These are the totals. Not the monthly averages. A Northern Cape garden is a study in scarcity. The plants that survive here are survivors in the truest sense, and the gardener's job is to help them thrive without making the problem worse.…
Winter in Mpumalanga is a soft cold. Nelspruit gets to four degrees. White River gets a touch of frost. Dullstroom and Lydenburg get proper snow. The Highveld edge of the province is a different country from the Lowveld. The garden reset in August, the pre-spring month, is when the difference matters. If you live in…
Polokwane in January is 32 degrees and dropping. Tzaneen is humid. Musina is dry hot. The Lowveld bakes. The Bushveld glows. A traditional English garden in Limpopo is a war you're losing. A properly planted indigenous garden is one you barely have to fight. Limpopo is the easiest province in South Africa to garden in,…
The first frost in the Eastern Cape hits the Karoo towns hard. Sutherland gets a minus eight. Graaff-Reinet shivers at minus four. Even Port Elizabeth and East London, the mild coastal cities, get a chilly few degrees on a bad July night. The garden doesn't die. It just goes quiet. The cold is good news…
The first frost hasn't hit Joburg yet, but your garden already knows. The grass has gone from green to that pale yellow-brown that pretends to be dormant. The weeds, the clever ones, are still green. They're the cockroaches of the plant world. The frost comes, the lawn gives up, and the weeds start their takeover.…
Durban humidity doesn't mess around. Eighty percent in summer, seventy-five percent on a good winter day, and the air feels like a warm towel wrapped around your face. Plants love it. So does the mould. So do the fungi, the algae, the snails, and every other creature that thrives in still, damp air. The trick…
The first time the City of Cape Town sent us to level 6B restrictions, I learnt that a garden is a luxury item. The second time, I redesigned mine. The third time, I stopped pretending I wanted a Kikuyu lawn and started working with what the Cape gives us for free. A water-wise Cape Town…
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