by Diana Studer - gardening for biodiversity November 2009 we returned to our burnt mountain . Since the March fire we had winter r...

by Diana Studer - gardening for biodiversity As August unfolds, the aloes open on our Karoo Koppie . The weaver birds bicker over w...

by Diana Studer - gardening for biodiversity Our garden decides which colour features thru the year. Red and yellow flames echo the k...

by Diana Studer - gardening for biodiversity When we left Cape Town, passed thru the Wheat Curtain, and began gardening in the Swartla...

by Diana Studer - gardening for biodiversity When the mains burst, we are prepared for no running water and Regular Service will resum...

by Diana Studer - gardening for biodiversity For Alice, and all my readers with March birthdays Our garden year for South Africa be...

by Diana Studer - gardening for biodiversity Updated 22 December 2017 for Hessea monticola If you live, as we do, and did in Camps ...

Our garden is in that dip, when the flowers and lush green of autumn winter and spring’s bulbs – are lying down in summer tans. Crumpled le...

The noise of long hot dry days, has been broken by the clear signal of autumn. We can garden in shorts and T-shirt without desperately see...

Gail at Clay and Limestone’s Wildflower Wednesday  is usually my chance to walk around the garden – collecting what is blooming to attention...

Last Saturday we went across-our-valley-to-Riebeek , to a new nursery. I will show the plants as they find their new homes in our garden. F...

The Western Cape on a good winter day. Not one of the cold wet grey days. But one of the lovely blue sky sunny days, walking thru our gar...

At the bottom of a long narrow entrance, on the road we have a pair of olive trees. Brick piers. Not Stately Home Lions, cottage lions. We ...

At the edge of the wheat-fields and along the road side verges, where the farmers spray weed-killer and the authorities send out teams with...

It is the 25th. My day to walk around the garden and remind myself what is catching the eye this month. First the same old same old. Japane...

It is Saturday morning and you’ve dropped in for a quick cup of tea. Bury your nose in pink Perfume Passion and deepest red Black P...

May in our garden is about two things. First the rain has brought BULBS bursting thru everywhere you look. Quite literally millions of Oxali...

In the very beginning, there were two ash trees. Our trees are about thirty years old. A good reason for us to chose This plot. We call them...

My pink roses have lots of leaves, coming, and buds for later. But there are just two flowers on minature Lavender Jade. I choose to mix my...

We have the same farmer to thank, who gave us Melianthus (honey flowers) and Zantedeschia (arum lilies) along his stream. Who has built ...