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At last: a South African how-to with everything you need to know to create a dream indigenous garden. Accomplished landscape designer and botanist Marijke Honig puts forward the fundamentals in this comprehensive reference that is at once inspirational, practical and easy to use. This book is all about choosing the right plants for a particular space and purpose in your garden. Marijke shares her vast bank of knowledge and experience to help you assess the conditions in your garden, select the perfect plants and grow them successfully. The book is divided into three clearly organised, superbly illustrated sections, which together provide all the information you need to plan and plant a flourishing garden entirely suited to its setting and climate.
This book covers more than 300 plants, all accompanied by colour photographs showing the whole plant as well as selected features such as flowers, fruit, leaves and bark. The text comprises a description of each plant, location maps, its usages - including medicinal uses - and advice on cultivation.
This handy pocket guide introduces local gardening enthusiasts to some of southern Africa’s most beautiful, beneficial and easy-to-care-for indigenous plants, giving guidance on how best to use them and how to ensure that they flourish. It offers: a selection of 145 garden-friendly, low-maintenance trees, shrubs and bedding plants perfectly adapted to our local soils and weather conditions, text that’s direct and simple, Full-colour photographs that show plant details and ‘in context’ planting, Icons indicating at a glance whether a species is evergreen or deciduous, frost-hardy, suitable for a sunny or shaded position, fast or slow-growing, water wise, fragrant and attractive to insects or birds. An essential handbook for easy-care beautiful gardening.
An encyclopaedic collection of South African indigenous plants, this beautifully illustrated large-format book showcases more than 2,000 species that can be grown with ease in gardens and other outdoor spaces, not only locally but in other parts of the world. The book is arranged into twelve main chapters, from bulbs, orchids and aloes through to shrubs, climbers, trees and fynbos plants. An introduction to each group covers the selection, planting and feeding of species, along with useful tips on growing and maintaining these plants in gardens and containers. Each chapter features an extensive catalogue that describes and illustrates the list of plants that make up each category. Some 3,300 vivid full-colour photographs paired with brief descriptions - detailing size, shape, flowering times and best growing conditions - will ensure that the gardener's efforts meet with success. An introductory chapter covers climate, garden styles, planning and maintenance, as well as suggestions for attracting wildlife. The book concludes with a handy plant selector that lists all the species in the book to guide the gardener in considering which plants to use and where. Compiled and edited over almost a decade by a team of expert landscapers and horticulturists, in association with consultants from all corners of the country, this easy-to-use guide is destined to become a standard reference for gardeners, landscapers and plant lovers across the globe.
This guide covers a variety of indigenous species that are readily available and easy to grow. Chapters describe trees, shrubs, annuals, herbaceous perennials, bulbs, climbers, succulents, and ground covers.