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gardening for biodiversity on False Bay, Cape Town, South Africa. Fynbos on the mountain slopes around suburbia. Long summers and wet winters in our mediterranean climate.

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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Our False Bay garden in December

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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Mont Pellier and Artemis House - gardens in Franschhoek

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Wednesday, December 09, 2015

Dusty Miller for Advent

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Thursday, December 03, 2015

Somerset West Open Gardens for Helderberg Hospice

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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Our False Bay garden in November

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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Noordhoek open gardens in October

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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Pelargoniums and Margie

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Wednesday, November 04, 2015

CHocolat the CHatty cat from CHurch Street

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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Our False Bay garden in October

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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Mermaid with A Hat, or mushrooms and brooms with Monty Don

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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Melianthus major - Honey Flower for the Birds!

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Wednesday, October 07, 2015

To Elgin and Klein Optenhorst visiting gardens

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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Have you seen this Iris?

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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Our False Bay garden in September

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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Shipwreck Trail at Cape Point

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Wednesday, September 09, 2015

Dung beetles to flamingoes in the West Coast National Park

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Wednesday, September 02, 2015

Spring flowers at Hantam National Botanical Garden

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Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Our False Bay garden in August

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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Spring flowers at Ramskop

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Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Journey to Clanwilliam's Flower Church

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Wednesday, August 05, 2015

Cape Agulhas and the Two Oceans Hiking Trail

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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Our False Bay garden in July

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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Harold Porter NBG at Betty's Bay

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Wednesday, July 08, 2015

To Cape Point from snow on the Groot Winterhoek

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Wednesday, July 01, 2015

Where the aloes live, on a Karoo Koppie

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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Our False Bay garden in June

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Friday, June 19, 2015

Bird Island, Lambert's Bay

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Friday, June 12, 2015

Crossing False Bay

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Wednesday, June 03, 2015

‘Even the sheeps on the hills is lonely’

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Thursday, May 28, 2015

Our False Bay garden in May

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Thursday, May 21, 2015

Of Imperial tea and ruby grass

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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Karoo Koppie and the hell strip on the verge

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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Our False Bay garden after the house renovations

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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Kirstenbosch Plant Fair 2015

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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

How I blog, my blogging tools

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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Our False Bay garden hidden behind building chaos

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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Nearer God’s heart in a garden at Rustenberg

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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Mountain fires and rainbows

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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Our False Bay garden before the builders start

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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Stellenberg garden

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Tuesday, February 03, 2015

Four well thumbed garden books

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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

New patios in our False Bay garden

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Monday, January 19, 2015

Tankwa Karoo – birds and bees at the cottages

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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Tankwa Karoo - Elandsberg, Gannaga, Leeuberg

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Tuesday, January 06, 2015

My father's birthday

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