by Diana Studer - gardening for biodiversity Is it a "green" house? Brownfield (in town) not destroying nature. Where the in...

It may come true. We wanted a large space to make a garden. Our panhandle is a long driveway with a large square in which our house is roug...

Once upon a time we walked down the panhandle, past the ash trees to the reed bed and the weaver’s nests. We were smitten. Giant or Sp...

UPDATE: In November Ungardening Pond is circled with  purple spires  as I've solved the marginal planting problem. We are in Januar...

Drive away from our home in Porterville, North towards Clanwilliam and up into the Cederberg mountains, where endangered Cape leopards live...

Anne Perry's quintet was written around the First World War. I have just finished the fourth book – At some disputed barricade. A poe...

In May we walked together in hopeful optimism  round our pond . By June you can see winter rain falling, and filling the pond, but, to our ...

Gardening to deal with winter flash floods. June 2007, just after we moved in. Floods! We have heavy clay soil, and the swamp monster will ...

This post is for our Swiss friend Andrea, who asked for photos of all four corners. And for Clara who still hasn’t seen the ‘new’ house. N...

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...

Once upon a time the Ungardener had a toy train. Somewhere along the way, as he grew up, his mother gave it away. As a child, I never had a ...

The Ungardener likes the African sun. Despite warnings from the dermatologist. So he wants somewhere to sit and lie in the sun. This bi...