Aphids are small, soft bodied, sap-sucking insects and while they are not something you want to find on your plants they are rather fascinating. One of the reasons that aphids can be such a pest is that even a few of the insects can quickly turn...
Plants provide us with so much. Shade to keep us cool, beautiful flowers to amaze our eyes and fill the air with their scent and delicious fruits to keep our bellies full. There is another side to some plants though, a dark side. Many of the plants from...
It seems like every day the prices of consumables is going up. Food is becoming more and more expensive while the quality is often questionable. Where did that food get grown? Who grew that food? Did they use pesticides or herbicides? Is the food I'm...
You might ask yourself why you would need a landscaper in a country full of gardeners? While gardeners play an integral role in South African home keeping, bringing in a landscaper takes things to a whole new level. You are bringing experience, expertise and exciting...
54 percent of South Africans go to bed hungry every day, one third of those, being children and at least 20 percent of households are generally food insecure which means they have either inadequate or severely inadequate access to food. While much of the world...
Around the world hot, dry climates have resulted in plants evolving to survive. There are number of different ways they have done this. Plants like the hellichrysum species have evolved to be grey, white and silver. This allows them to reflect much of the sun's...
Humans, animals and plants have evolved together over millions of years. Plants need to survive being consumed by various creatures but also be attractive enough to encourage pollination and seed dispersal and they do this by becoming either tasty or repellent. Every single plant is...
Johannesburg is one of the biggest man made forests in the world with over 10 million trees. During spring the jacarandas hold sway. A pashmina of purple draped across the city of gold. Summer sees a green canopy covering the city, it protects us from...
The fynbos of the Western Cape of South Africa is very special. It contains more plants species per square metre than anywhere else in the world including the rain forests of Brazil. In fact all of the British Isles contain less plant species than those...