by Diana Studer
- gardening for biodiversity in Porterville, near Cape Town in South Africa
- gardening for biodiversity in Porterville, near Cape Town in South Africa
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| Hypoxis hemerocallidea |
27 December, 2013
A Swartland garden in December
13 December, 2013
The policeman and the prima donna
by Diana Studer
- gardening for biodiversity in Porterville, near Cape Town in South Africa
- gardening for biodiversity in Porterville, near Cape Town in South Africa
We have no manicured lawn. We've learnt to adjust to a hotter summer, but still in the Western Cape’s familiar mediterranean climate. They say build it and they will come – and indeed they have!
The Story of Elephant’s Eye
Chapter 7
Gardening for biodiversity
We live in a small country town, our garden behind a wall. We have a few diamond panels at the base of the wall – for frogs and snakes and lizards and striped mice. Our wildlife is birds and smalls.
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| Rosyfaced lovebird dining out at Spirulino's |
Most exciting was the endangered Black Stork for which we named the little island in Ungardening Pond. Porterville lies in a dip which was once a vlei, and I wonder how many generations back the frogs remember coming here. These summer nights towards Christmas the frog and cricket oompah band is in fine form.