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Houseplant comeback

The best reason to invest in lots of houseplants is that one can garden and play around with nature at any time, even on those days when it’s just too cold to go outside into the garden.
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South African indoor plant trends to enjoy in June

Keeping indoor plants alive can be challenging. Selecting the species that naturally thrive in the environment you are able to provide is the best recipe for success.
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Trending: Grow your own coffee tree indoors!

The coffee plant (or rather a tree!) botanically known as Coffea arabica, can earn you kudos from coffee snobs if you can manage to grow it successfully in your sitting room as an indoor plant.
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Top Trend: An Introduction to Hydroponics – 5 Hydroponic growing methods for bountiful harvests

Growing your own wholesome food needn’t require soil or compost. Hydroponics offers a solution to bountiful harvests in small spaces requiring no soil.
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Identifying orchids Watch here!

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For the LOVE of succulents

The month of love is sweetly scented with promises, chocolates, and the perfume of red roses.
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Promise in a pot: Herb pots for the window sill, or patio

Spring sweetness. When the days reach further into the evenings, spilling stars and the sunset’s streaks of gold and red across the same heavens.
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Promise in a Pot Series – Container gardening: The secrets to success

No garden? No problem! Do you dream of a beautiful, blooming garden, but you don't have space?
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How to grow herbs indoors Watch here!

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Bonsai Basics: How to repot your bonsai Watch here!

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Bonsai Basics: How to Prune Your Bonsai Watch here!

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Bonsai Basics: How to fertilise your bonsai Watch here!

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Bonsai Basics: How to care for your bonsai Watch here!

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Bonsai Basics: How to purchase your first bonsai Watch here!

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How to garden with herbs on a patio or balcony Read more here

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How to improve your soil

Learn how to improve your soil for planting! Perform a ‘sausage soil test’: Add a little water to your soil sample and mix Roll the soil into a sausage shape and bend Slight bend = loamy/sandy soil = ideal Forms a ring = clay soil = NOT ideal!
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How to re-pot a plant successfully! #potplants Read more here

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Success with foliar sprays

Foliar fertilisers can be used successfully on flowers, shrubs, vegetables, as well as on lawn.
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Soil savvy

We offer some ideas for helping your garden survive extremely dry spells. There are four key factors to making a water wise garden: plant choice, garden design and style, garden care (watering, feeding etc) and soil preparation.
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Rescue remedies for your garden

Despite the severe water shortages being experienced in the Southern and Eastern Cape, a garden keeps growing, and so gardening should continue.
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