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- Garden Colour
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- Lovely Lavender
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- The DIY Planter
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- Baby Dove has a Name
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- We can fly!
- Photo shoot with Micro
- Mildew on the Squash Plant
- Micro part of the family
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- Made Fig Jam
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- Fig Jam Recipe
- Snake in the garden
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- I’ve been in the Garden
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- African Fruit Beetle
- New Fruit in my Garden
- Micro all grown up
- What’s Flowering in Barbie’s Garden
- Did gardening in this heat!
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- The Magic Seeder
- Picked from the Garden
- What do you Feed your Plants?
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- Whats bugging me today!
- Fertilizers or Compost?
- What are Solifuges?
- For Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – a combined show in March
- What is Organic Gardening?
- Worm Farming
- Neighbourhood walk in Philadelphia, Cape Town
- The Cape Garden Centre Review
- Destruction in my garden
- Got to get organised!
- New idea for lavender patch
- Plan for the front patch
- Ruby is missing
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- Tons of Tomatoes
- My Great Soil Experiment
- The big garden clean up
- Barbie’s Soil Experiment Results
- The new Gardening Journal
- Swallows everywhere!
- My little guava tree
- Non-plant garden things
- My Lemon Tree
- Fairholme Nursery in Elgin
- Best roses in town!
- The great big gardening makeover!
- What’s wrong with my pepper plant?
- Snake in the compost heap!
- Two Gardens in April for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day
- The Gardens at Wildekrans Country Estate
- Sithanda Nursery, Elgin Valley
- My Grass Feature
- Heaven Scent Nursery purchases
- The big Leopard Tree planting!
- Grass Feature – Part 1
- Grass Feature – Part 2
- Painting with light!
- Dry bed vs water feature
- Additional grasses
- Blotanical – On being a “Blotanist” and new Gardening Friends
- Back to School
- Buckets of Lavender
- Recycled old barrow
- Wormwood, mugwort or Powis Castle?
- Garden glove audition
- Guess what flower!
- Autumn in two Gardens for Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day in May
- Mulch mania!
- Project Back garden starts!
- What flower is this!
- My Fuchsia is budding
- Autumn showers
- Guavas and all
- Farewell my feathered friend
- Wooly winter
- Winter in Two Gardens for June Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- garden mayhem
- Pretty gum boots
- Rose pruning
- Neighbourly animals
- Building my raised bed garden
- Organic layers
- Rhinoceros beetle in the manure
- Recycling drive in Philly
- Finished the bed building
- Mid-winter in the Two Gardens for July Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Strange onion?
- back-breaking back garden project
- MyGardenSchool Organic Gardening course
- Neutrog in my garden
- Barbie’s Garden is famous
- Design beginnings for the back
- New grass patch
- Powis Castle Art
- Patchwork Patio plan
- Patchwork Patio design
- My beautiful countryside
- Pre-Spring in two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day in August
- Gaura beauties
- The Mighty Mugwood Tree
- Harry Goemans Garden Centre – a review
- Indigenous Roadside Flora
- Sunbird in my garden
- Happy Birthday
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- Sowing the seeds of love
- Happy Spring Day
- Grass feature revisited
- Love in my garden
- Bugs eye view
- Sowing the seeds of love
- Spring in two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day September
- Not mad about these mushrooms
- Apple Espalier
- My extended back garden
- New life in my garden
- Miss you
- Going Green
- Bug-eyed
- How are my roses?
- from wheat fields to vineyards
- Before and After
- Before and after continued ..
- Mid-spring in one garden for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day October
- Whats growing in my veggie patch?
- Backgarden joy
- Patchwork patio herbs
- Destruction 101
- Wagtails in my jasmine
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 1
- Malachite sunbird babies
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- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 4
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 5
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 6
- Grasses revisited
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 7
- Art of Nature
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 8
- Late-spring in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day in November
- Open Gardens visit
- New Acquisition Solanum jasminoides
- Green November
- Hot Lips and Calibrachoa
- Gardening mistakes
- Feathered friends sharing apple crumble
- Strawberries for Elma
- Leaves of a Leopard Tree
- Bugs and things
- The Gardening Journal in the News
- Mantis mommy laying eggs
- Summer at last in the Two Gardens for December Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- My Twelve Days of Christmas
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- Holiday Harvests
- New additions for 2012
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day January
- Praying Mantis babies have hatched
- Birthday surprise
- Wordless Wednesday
- January in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Who’s living in my sunflowers?
- Ghost Mantis in my garden
- Prehistoric bug
- Heat of the Summer
- Bug-a-boo Zoo
- Cleomes in bed
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day for February
- Summer Heat getting to me
- February in two gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Death of a tree
- Big clean up!
- Mini crab spiders
- Let’s throw stones
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day for March
- From my back deck
- Lush green for March
- March in two gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Leopard Tree in bloom
- Grass Feature Patch preview
- Creating a meadow
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day April
- Grasses highlighted – 1st anniversary
- April in two gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Fig Tree damage
- Meadow update
- Cleome attack
- Back garden highlighted
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in May
- Miscanthus probe
- Garden friends spotted in my garden
- Meadow brief
- Seed collection development
- It’s almost Winter in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Leopard Tree in May
- Meadow in May
- What a Hen House?
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in June
- A wet winter garden
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- What’s this?
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- Gardening in July
- New patch plantings
- Mid winter in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Edible flowers in my garden
- Wander about the neighbourhood
- Biodiversity showcase garden
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in August
- Garden on a plate
- One Minute Tips from Barbie’s Garden – 1
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- One Minute Tips from Barbie’s Garden – 3
- Something stirring in my garden
- Feeding time
- Happy Spring Day!
- What’s this plant?
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in September
- Fence building
- One Minute Tips from Barbie’s Garden – 4
- Another rainy day
- Spring in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- What beauties
- Front garden cleanup
- Spring Splendour
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in October
- Babiana Beauties
- Mid-Spring in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Wet October day
- One Minute Tips from Barbie’s Garden – 5
- Last October Days
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in November
- Bugs alive
- End-Spring in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- New back garden wall
- Bugs galore
- New Back garden area
- Grow bag with style
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in December
- Destruction 101
- Summer in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Happy Festive Season
- Seasonal Celebration
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in January
- The Great Hen House Build
- Mid-summer in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Hen House update
- Ramblers and vines
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in February
- Garden Colour
- Bye-bye Buffy
- Late summer in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Sheeping around
- Front garden activity
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in March
- Throwing Stones
- Early Autumn in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Scary Centipede
- Earth Day clean up
- Easter Egg Treasure Hunt in Barbie’s Garden
- Garden Bloggers non-Harvest Day in April
- Mid-Autumn in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- The Gardening Blog in the News!
- Barred Rock rocks the Hen House
- What’s growing in my backyard
- My own Compost
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in May
- Autumn colours
- Hail Storm antics
- Dull garden?
- Rainy day blues
- Growing up
- Shabby Chic for the garden
- Garden Bloggers Bloom Day in my winter July 2013
- Growing up revisited
- Mandela Day honoured
- Keep on Growing
- What’s eating my parsley?
- Back in my Garden
- Late Garden Bloggers Bloom Day in September
- Iris Delight
- Garden Clutter
- Garden Bloggers Bloom Day in October
- October clean up
- Spotted an Owl
- Sunflowers from sunny Cape Town
- Badboy bugs
- Garden revamp for water wise gardening
- May Day Blooms
- The Mouse Whisperer
- The Mouse and the Provita
- Garden revival
- November gifts from my Garden
- December 2014 Diaries
- Heat of the Day
- Bountiful fruit
- Harvest Day
- A Bokmakierie in my Garden
- My Greywater System
- Essence of my Winter Garden
- Gutter Garden
- Flourishing in my winter garden
- What’s Hot and What’s Not
- Starke Ayres Garden Centre Visit
- Tea Tree Wonder
- Bugs Galore
- Food Garden
- January Harvest
- May garden walkabout
- Do-it-yourself Worm Farm
- Bloggers Harvest Day
- My January Harvest
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day January
- My February Harvest
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day for February
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day for March
- Belated Harvest for Harvest Day
- My Veggie Harvest for April
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day April
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in May
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in June
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in July
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in August
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in September
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- Small Spring harvest
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in November
- A Short but Sweet December Harvest
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in December
- A Summer Harvest
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in January
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in February
- Garden Bloggers non-Harvest Day in April
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in May
- Iris Delight
- Garden revival
- Harvest Day
- Food Garden
- January Harvest
- May garden walkabout
- Bugs & Pests
- Bugs and things …
- More news from the Veggie Patch
- Enemies of the Garden
- Nasties in my Lemon Tree
- More Nasties in my Lemon Tree
- Friends in my Garden
- Mildew on Lavender
- Ants
- Mildew on the Squash Plant
- Impulse buy Peppermint plant
- Lemon Tree Rescue
- African Fruit Beetle
- Praying Mantis in my garden
- What critter is this?
- Yikes! Mushrooms! what to do?
- Gardening and Macro Photography
- Sunday Bugs
- Whats bugging me today!
- What are Solifuges?
- What Beetle is this and does it matter?
- What’s wrong with my pepper plant?
- Snake in the compost heap!
- A Solar Mole Repeller – Did they see me coming?
- Very Scarey Spider – ID help
- Autumn showers
- Rhinoceros beetle in the manure
- Hope Grows Day July 2011
- Bug-eyed
- Is it a Stinker or a Lady?
- Camellia leaf woes
- Bug parade
- Bugs and things
- Mantis mommy laying eggs
- The latest Bug Parade
- Praying Mantis babies have hatched
- Gecko and his dinner
- Ghost Mantis in my garden
- Prehistoric bug
- Heat of the Summer
- Something new for Someone new
- A partly reclaimed view
- Bug-a-boo Zoo
- The Sunday Bird Show
- Mini crab spiders
- Bug-date
- Fig Tree damage
- Cleome attack
- Garden friends spotted in my garden
- Bug Day
- Bugs ‘n Boids
- Bugs alive
- Bugs galore
- Mole control
- Scary Centipede
- What’s eating my parsley?
- Badboy bugs
- December 2014 Diaries
- Essence of my Winter Garden
- Gutter Garden
- What’s Hot and What’s Not
- Bugs Galore
- Christine's garden
- The Gardening Blog begins
- Christine’s Garden – as it was
- The Willow Tree – then and now
- My “back garden” make-over
- My Gardenias and insect repellent
- New Lavender plants
- My Pandorea Jasminoides
- My Bougainvillea she flowers!
- Bugs and things …
- Gifts from the Garden
- Trip to Ferndale
- Controlling weeds in the garden
- Coffee grounds as fertiliser
- New Plant Stand
- Unusual Planters
- Mildew on Lavender
- Alyssum in little pots
- Plectranthus ‘Mona Lavender’ flowering
- Ants
- My favourite gardening magazine
- Water Hyacinth
- Nasturtiums for our Lemon Trees
- Birds in my garden
- Lemon tree woes
- Agapanthus and others …
- Star Jasmine
- Happy days
- Close encounter with a Hadeda
- Border plants
- Lavender update
- Nandina pygmaea dwarf Bamboo
- Gardening in February
- Bye-bye Lavender
- Front Garden
- Pretty Petunias
- Hibiscus
- Sweetgum Tree
- What tree is this?
- Cherry blossom?
- Sweet Alyssum
- Ferndale Nurseries – a review
- Garden Walk
- Tomato and Basil
- Lavender replacement
- New plants
- Angel’s Trumpet
- Impulse buy Peppermint plant
- Lemon Tree Rescue
- Root bound Agapanthus
- Scaevola Aussie Salute
- Praying Mantis in my garden
- What critter is this?
- Yikes! Mushrooms! what to do?
- Mackaya Bella – Forest Bell Bush
- My Veggie Planter has arrived
- What was in the box?
- What’s flowering in my garden
- My new Vegetable Garden
- Gardening and Macro Photography
- Something very special: Trachelospermum Chameleon
- Look what I found whilst weeding!
- Corner Bed make-over plan
- Too hot to garden so we photograph
- Sunday Bugs
- Update from the Veggie Planter
- I get my ‘Chameleon’ Plants!
- Time out with The Gardener on DVD
- Another Before and After Post
- First Camellia bloom of the season
- Stodels Nursery in Kenilworth
- What to do with all the Basil?
- Neighbourhood Walk in Cape Town
- For Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – a combined show in March
- Why I Love Autumn ♥
- Chaos in the veggie planter
- New Winter Bulbs
- Proud of my Camellias
- First attempt at planting seeds
- Front bed makeover and patience!
- Things I need …
- Petites Fleurs
- Getting organised
- Stodels in Kenilworth revisited
- Rare Plant Fair 2011 at Rustenberg Wines
- Rare Indigenous Bulb purchases
- Seeds sprouting
- Join the Great Soil Experiment
- What’s up with this Clivia?
- End of Month View – Flowering on April Fools Day
- Christine’s Soil Experiment Result
- The new Gardening Journal
- Lovely ornamental grass finds its niche
- Come Walk with me …
- Finally Found. Hellebores
- A Garden Pathway
- Fairholme Nursery in Elgin
- Eye-Candy provided by Vireya Rhododendrons
- First Iceberg Standard Rose opening
- Good, bad or just ugly?
- Best roses in town!
- Birds a bathing
- Two Gardens in April for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day
- Non-plant garden things and some non-garden plant things
- The Gardens at Wildekrans Country Estate
- Sithanda Nursery, Elgin Valley
- A Veggie Harvest
- A welcome stranger
- Earth Day Reading Project
- A Solar Mole Repeller – Did they see me coming?
- One bag of potting soil
- Bulb planting weekend – Part I
- Bulb planting weekend – Part II
- Raindrops keep fallin on my head
- Month-end blooms or non-blooms
- Very Scarey Spider – ID help
- Blotanical – On being a “Blotanist” and new Gardening Friends
- Back to School
- Autumn Day loveliness
- Autumn in Munich, Germany
- The Gardens at Vergelegen Estate
- Final bulb delivery and bulb update
- Groovey gardening gloves
- Chameleon plant update
- Autumn in two Gardens for Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day in May
- Thank you very Mulch
- Another bag of potting soil
- On my Wish List – Crocosmia
- What to do when you don’t like something anymore?
- Bee-ootiful
- Mulch more mulch
- And now for something completely different
- I Heart Liliums ♥
- Composting confessions and a solution
- Hope Grows Day June 2011
- Peony in a packet
- Tree work, blocked drains and mayhem
- Planting Design Gardening Course progress report
- Winter in Two Gardens for June Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- My Gardening Course – this weeks lecture and assignment
- Stopping to smell the flowers
- How much I’ve learnt in ten short months
- Final Assignment for the Garden Design Course
- Claiming back my privacy
- Up close and personal with the Pittosporum
- My DIY trellises
- The first tulip emerges and other joys from my winter garden
- Hope Grows Day July 2011
- New garden ornament tuned to c major
- Tree ID help
- Introducing our Blotsprouts
- New Lavender to replace the old
- New Lemon and Lime
- Mid-winter in the Two Gardens for July Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Happy Days the Hellebores are waking up
- Gardening from my window
- Linda’s Veggie Garden
- Hope Grows Day August 2011
- Weekend project and redoing the lawn
- Buds galore and my first ever Tulip. Could it be …
- Hellebores in pictures
- Favourite Foliage
- Pre-Spring in two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day in August
- New Lawn and instant gratification
- Flowers for my Mom
- Harry Goemans Garden Centre – a review
- Happy Birthday
- Bulbalicious Beauties on this Fabulous Friday
- Happy Spring Day
- The first Asiatic Lily and other Joys of Spring
- All about Change – the Azalea bed, then and now
- Ixia – a lovely South African native
- Progress in the compost mixer
- Hope Grows better late than never
- Garden Lessons learned
- Spring in two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day September
- September Foliage Follow up
- I Won, I Won (Actually, the Lily is the Winner)
- Iris – flower for a Goddess
- Lily Love
- Illumination a Word for Wednesday on Thursday
- Garden Bloggers Foliage Day
- Adieu to the Tulips
- Dance of the Bees
- For the Birds …
- My favourite ground cover flowers unexpectedly
- First visitors to the new Bird Feeder
- At last Makhaya Bella flowers
- I’m Wordless this Wednesday
- Mid-spring in one garden for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day October
- Parent Trees
- Back to the garden
- Shopping + gardening = happiness
- Window Dressing
- Dutch Irises no cigar
- Loving the St Josephs Lilies
- White
- First lemon and lime
- The Rookie Rose Grower
- Our new Gardening Companion
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 1
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 2
- Abutilon cutting and buds
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 3
- Progress in a forgotten corner
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 4
- Ferns of Southern Africa – a Book Review
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 5
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 6
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 7
- One Word Wednesday – Orange
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 8
- Another favourite Native
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 9
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 10
- Is it a Stinker or a Lady?
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 11
- Diary of the Switch Grass
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 12
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 13
- Late-spring in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day in November
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 14
- Foliage Follow Up in November
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 15
- Pattern and Texture
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 16
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 17
- New Acquisition Solanum jasminoides
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 18
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 19
- Pretty feather grass
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 20
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 21
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 22
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 23
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 24
- And the award for Miss Photogenic goes to …
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 25
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 26
- Gerbera and friends get potted
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 27
- Camellia leaf woes
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 28
- Update of the lower back garden
- Bug parade
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 29
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 30
- New Garden Lessons Learned
- The Gardening Journal in the News
- Lavender and Gaura
- SA Garden Magazine on my wish list
- The latest Bug Parade
- Gardenias 101
- Summer at last in the Two Gardens for December Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Foliage Follow-up in December
- The Twelve Days of Christmas
- Christmas Day – May it be Merry
- The Rose Bed gets a make-over and then another
- Morning light and holiday delights
- Rooibeksysie in the Pepper Tree
- 2012 Calendars and Happy New Year
- Gardening Resolutions and 2012 To Do List
- Sunbird in the Hibiscus
- My January Harvest
- Look who’s eating them apples
- Spot The Red
- January in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- January Foliage
- A New Rose
- “Grasses” by Nancy Ondra – A Review
- The Baby Doves in my shade garden
- The First of my Twelve
- Gecko and his dinner
- A few words about grasses on Wednesday
- Something new for Someone new
- A partly reclaimed view
- Mexican Petunia – My favourite plant of the season
- The Sunday Bird Show
- This ever happen to you?
- My February Harvest
- My Summer garden update
- The Ugly Post
- Oxygenators for the pond
- February in two gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Update on the tree planting
- Front garden Panoramas
- February Foliage Follow-Up
- The Second of my Twelve
- The Complete Planting Design Course – February Book Review
- Growing Lotus Blossom from Seed
- The Big PRE-Makeover Pond Post
- The Problem with the Thatching Reed
- Lets talk about Mulch
- View from the bench
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day for March
- Belated Harvest for Harvest Day
- Autumn in Cape Town
- The Latest Garden Lessons Learned
- March in two gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Foliage Follow Up in March
- Artemesia not powiss castle
- Dietes Grandiflora is Third of my Twelve
- March book review
- Autumn Bird-capades
- I hugged a tree and I liked it
- My garden in Autumn
- The House Plant (Anthurium andreanum)
- My Veggie Harvest for April
- A few new plants for the pond
- Happy Easter
- Bug-date
- An Autumn garden
- April in two gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Garlic and heirlooms
- Clivia is Fourth of my Twelve
- April Book Review – Foliage by Nancy Ondra
- The Colour of Autumn
- Garden update
- New plants and grasses for the sunny bed
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in May
- Lovely Camellias
- Camellia bed update
- It’s almost Winter in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Foliage Follow-up – What happened?
- Bulb planting 2012
- Bug Day
- My Winter garden
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in June
- Surprises in the pond
- Two Gardens in Winter for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Camellia is fifth of my Twelve
- Foliage in my wet winter garden
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in July
- Disaster struck (the story of the overgrown Bougainvillea)
- Mid winter in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Too pretty to eat
- My Late Winter Harvest
- Spring is on its way
- Almost …
- The second Spring day
- It’s all too beautiful …
- Azalea love
- In the grass bed
- Spring in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Seasonal Celebrations
- Book Review – Exotic Planting for Adventurous Gardeners
- Six, Seven, Eight
- Painting the pond
- Small Spring harvest
- A look around
- Mid-Spring in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- My Visit to Seebauer Garden Centre in Munich, Germany
- Just call me Daisy
- End-Spring in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Mole control
- Hello Summer
- Intimidating …
- A Short but Sweet December Harvest
- Seasonal Celebrations in the Rose Bed
- Summer in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- A Summer Harvest
- Mid-summer in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Flowers to say “I’m Sorry”
- Late summer in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Early Autumn in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- The Gardening Blog in the News!
- Design
- The Nogg Urban Chicken Coop
- The DIY Planter
- Unusual Planters
- Stellenbosch Botanical Gardens
- The Magic Seeder
- The Gardening Blog gets a Logo
- Plan for the front patch
- A Garden Pathway
- The great big gardening makeover!
- Non-plant garden things and some non-garden plant things
- My Grass Feature
- Grass Feature – Part 1
- Grass Feature – Part 2
- Dry bed vs water feature
- Additional grasses
- Buckets of Lavender
- Mulch mania!
- My Gardening Course – this weeks lecture and assignment
- Pretty gum boots
- Final Assignment for the Garden Design Course
- Finished the bed building
- back-breaking back garden project
- Design beginnings for the back
- New grass patch
- Patchwork Patio design
- All about Change – the Azalea bed, then and now
- Apple Espalier
- Garden Bloggers Foliage Day
- For the Birds …
- Before and After
- Before and after continued ..
- Patchwork patio herbs
- Grasses revisited
- Pattern and Texture
- The Gardening Journal in the News
- Let’s throw stones
- From my back deck
- Creating a meadow
- Grasses highlighted – 1st anniversary
- Back garden highlighted
- What a Hen House?
- New patch plantings
- New Back garden area
- Grow bag with style
- The Great Hen House Build
- Hen House update
- Throwing Stones
- Shabby Chic for the garden
- My Greywater System
- Do-it-yourself Worm Farm
- Do it yourself
- The DIY Planter
- Basic organic pesticide
- Time out with The Gardener on DVD
- Grass Feature – Part 1
- Project Back garden starts!
- Composting confessions and a solution
- Wooly winter
- Building my raised bed garden
- My DIY trellises
- Organic layers
- Recycling drive in Philly
- Finished the bed building
- back-breaking back garden project
- Design beginnings for the back
- New grass patch
- Patchwork Patio plan
- Patchwork Patio design
- New Lawn and instant gratification
- The Mighty Mugwood Tree
- Apple Espalier
- Before and After
- Before and after continued ..
- The Gardening Journal in the News
- The Big PRE-Makeover Pond Post
- The Problem with the Thatching Reed
- Let’s throw stones
- From my back deck
- What a Hen House?
- Fence building
- One Minute Tips from Barbie’s Garden – 4
- New back garden wall
- New Back garden area
- The Old house
- The big reveal
- The Great Hen House Build
- Hen House update
- Throwing Stones
- Easter Egg Treasure Hunt in Barbie’s Garden
- My own Compost
- Shabby Chic for the garden
- Keep on Growing
- Garden revamp for water wise gardening
- Heat of the Day
- My Greywater System
- Do-it-yourself Worm Farm
- Fertiliser
- Gardening
- The Gardening Blog begins
- Setting up a gardening blog
- Christine’s Garden – as it was
- The Willow Tree – then and now
- My “back garden” make-over
- My Gardenias and insect repellent
- New Lavender plants
- My Pandorea Jasminoides
- My Bougainvillea she flowers!
- Lovely Lavender
- Baby dove fell from nest
- The Nogg Urban Chicken Coop
- Bugs and things …
- From the Veggie Patch
- More news from the Veggie Patch
- Controlling weeds in the garden
- The DIY Planter
- Food from my Garden
- Enemies of the Garden
- Nasties in my Lemon Tree
- More Nasties in my Lemon Tree
- Friends in my Garden
- Coffee grounds as fertiliser
- New Plant Stand
- Unusual Planters
- Mildew on Lavender
- Alyssum in little pots
- Fruits in my Garden
- Sweet Basil beginnings
- Plectranthus ‘Mona Lavender’ flowering
- Roma Tomatoes
- Ants
- My favourite gardening magazine
- Water Hyacinth
- Nasturtiums for our Lemon Trees
- Lemon tree woes
- Agapanthus and others …
- Star Jasmine
- Mildew on the Squash Plant
- Harvesting garden peas
- Figs ready for jam
- Border plants
- Lavender update
- Nandina pygmaea dwarf Bamboo
- Gardening in February
- Made Fig Jam
- My healthy looking garden
- Bye-bye Lavender
- Front Garden
- Hibiscus
- Sweetgum Tree
- What tree is this?
- My favourite gardening blogs
- Sweet Alyssum
- I’ve been in the Garden
- Garden Walk
- Tomato and Basil
- Lavender replacement
- New plants
- Basic organic pesticide
- Angel’s Trumpet
- Impulse buy Peppermint plant
- Lemon Tree Rescue
- African Fruit Beetle
- Stellenbosch Botanical Gardens
- Root bound Agapanthus
- Scaevola Aussie Salute
- Praying Mantis in my garden
- What critter is this?
- New Fruit in my Garden
- Yikes! Mushrooms! what to do?
- Mackaya Bella – Forest Bell Bush
- My Veggie Planter has arrived
- What was in the box?
- What’s flowering in my garden
- What’s Flowering in Barbie’s Garden
- Did gardening in this heat!
- My new Vegetable Garden
- Gardening and Macro Photography
- Something very special: Trachelospermum Chameleon
- Off to the Nursery!
- Look what I found whilst weeding!
- Corner Bed make-over plan
- Too hot to garden so we photograph
- Sunday Bugs
- The Magic Seeder
- Picked from the Garden
- Update from the Veggie Planter
- I get my ‘Chameleon’ Plants!
- Time out with The Gardener on DVD
- The Gardening Blog gets a Logo
- Another Before and After Post
- First Camellia bloom of the season
- Stodels Nursery in Kenilworth
- What do you Feed your Plants?
- What to do with all the Basil?
- Whats bugging me today!
- Fertilizers or Compost?
- Neighbourhood Walk in Cape Town
- What are Solifuges?
- For Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – a combined show in March
- What is Organic Gardening?
- Worm Farming
- Why I Love Autumn ♥
- Chaos in the veggie planter
- New Winter Bulbs
- Neighbourhood walk in Philadelphia, Cape Town
- The Cape Garden Centre Review
- Proud of my Camellias
- First attempt at planting seeds
- Front bed makeover and patience!
- Destruction in my garden
- Things I need …
- Petites Fleurs
- Getting organised
- Stodels in Kenilworth revisited
- Rare Plant Fair 2011 at Rustenberg Wines
- Rare Indigenous Bulb purchases
- Got to get organised!
- New idea for lavender patch
- Seeds sprouting
- Join the Great Soil Experiment
- Plan for the front patch
- She’s back! Whew!
- What’s up with this Clivia?
- Tons of Tomatoes
- My Great Soil Experiment
- End of Month View – Flowering on April Fools Day
- What Beetle is this and does it matter?
- The big garden clean up
- Barbie’s Soil Experiment Results
- Christine’s Soil Experiment Result
- The new Gardening Journal
- My little guava tree
- Lovely ornamental grass finds its niche
- Non-plant garden things
- My Lemon Tree
- Come Walk with me …
- Finally Found. Hellebores
- A Garden Pathway
- Fairholme Nursery in Elgin
- Good, bad or just ugly?
- Best roses in town!
- The great big gardening makeover!
- What’s wrong with my pepper plant?
- Birds a bathing
- Snake in the compost heap!
- Two Gardens in April for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day
- Non-plant garden things and some non-garden plant things
- The Gardens at Wildekrans Country Estate
- Sithanda Nursery, Elgin Valley
- My Grass Feature
- A Veggie Harvest
- Heaven Scent Nursery purchases
- A welcome stranger
- Earth Day Reading Project
- The big Leopard Tree planting!
- A Solar Mole Repeller – Did they see me coming?
- One bag of potting soil
- Bulb planting weekend – Part I
- Grass Feature – Part 1
- Happy Easter
- Grass Feature – Part 2
- Bulb planting weekend – Part II
- Raindrops keep fallin on my head
- Painting with light!
- Dry bed vs water feature
- Month-end blooms or non-blooms
- Very Scarey Spider – ID help
- Additional grasses
- Blotanical – On being a “Blotanist” and new Gardening Friends
- Back to School
- Buckets of Lavender
- Autumn Day loveliness
- Recycled old barrow
- The Gardens at Vergelegen Estate
- Final bulb delivery and bulb update
- Wormwood, mugwort or Powis Castle?
- Groovey gardening gloves
- Garden glove audition
- Guess what flower!
- Chameleon plant update
- Autumn in two Gardens for Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day in May
- Thank you very Mulch
- Mulch mania!
- Project Back garden starts!
- What flower is this!
- Another bag of potting soil
- On my Wish List – Crocosmia
- What to do when you don’t like something anymore?
- Bee-ootiful
- Mulch more mulch
- I Heart Liliums ♥
- My Fuchsia is budding
- Autumn showers
- Guavas and all
- Composting confessions and a solution
- Peony in a packet
- Tree work, blocked drains and mayhem
- Wooly winter
- Winter in Two Gardens for June Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- garden mayhem
- My Gardening Course – this weeks lecture and assignment
- Stopping to smell the flowers
- Pretty gum boots
- How much I’ve learnt in ten short months
- Rose pruning
- Final Assignment for the Garden Design Course
- Claiming back my privacy
- Up close and personal with the Pittosporum
- Building my raised bed garden
- My DIY trellises
- The first tulip emerges and other joys from my winter garden
- Organic layers
- Rhinoceros beetle in the manure
- Recycling drive in Philly
- Hope Grows Day July 2011
- New garden ornament tuned to c major
- Tree ID help
- Finished the bed building
- Introducing our Blotsprouts
- New Lavender to replace the old
- New Lemon and Lime
- Mid-winter in the Two Gardens for July Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Strange onion?
- Happy Days the Hellebores are waking up
- back-breaking back garden project
- MyGardenSchool Organic Gardening course
- Neutrog in my garden
- Barbie’s Garden is famous
- Design beginnings for the back
- Gardening from my window
- Linda’s Veggie Garden
- New grass patch
- Hope Grows Day August 2011
- Powis Castle Art
- Weekend project and redoing the lawn
- Patchwork Patio plan
- Buds galore and my first ever Tulip. Could it be …
- Hellebores in pictures
- Patchwork Patio design
- My beautiful countryside
- Favourite Foliage
- Pre-Spring in two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day in August
- New Lawn and instant gratification
- Gaura beauties
- Flowers for my Mom
- The Mighty Mugwood Tree
- Harry Goemans Garden Centre – a review
- Indigenous Roadside Flora
- Sunbird in my garden
- Welcome to my garden
- Sowing the seeds of love
- Bulbalicious Beauties on this Fabulous Friday
- Happy Spring Day
- Happy Spring Day
- The first Asiatic Lily and other Joys of Spring
- All about Change – the Azalea bed, then and now
- Ixia – a lovely South African native
- Progress in the compost mixer
- Grass feature revisited
- Hope Grows better late than never
- Garden Lessons learned
- Love in my garden
- Bugs eye view
- Sowing the seeds of love
- Spring in two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day September
- Not mad about these mushrooms
- September Foliage Follow up
- I Won, I Won (Actually, the Lily is the Winner)
- Apple Espalier
- Iris – flower for a Goddess
- My extended back garden
- Lily Love
- Illumination a Word for Wednesday on Thursday
- Garden Bloggers Foliage Day
- Adieu to the Tulips
- Dance of the Bees
- For the Birds …
- My favourite ground cover flowers unexpectedly
- First visitors to the new Bird Feeder
- At last Makhaya Bella flowers
- I’m Wordless this Wednesday
- New life in my garden
- Miss you
- Going Green
- Bug-eyed
- How are my roses?
- from wheat fields to vineyards
- Before and After
- Before and after continued ..
- Mid-spring in one garden for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day October
- Whats growing in my veggie patch?
- Parent Trees
- Back to the garden
- Shopping + gardening = happiness
- Window Dressing
- Backgarden joy
- Dutch Irises no cigar
- Patchwork patio herbs
- Loving the St Josephs Lilies
- White
- First lemon and lime
- The Rookie Rose Grower
- Destruction 101
- Our new Gardening Companion
- Wagtails in my jasmine
- Abutilon cutting and buds
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 3
- Progress in a forgotten corner
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 1
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 4
- Ferns of Southern Africa – a Book Review
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 5
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 6
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 2
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 7
- One Word Wednesday – Orange
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 3
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 8
- Another favourite Native
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 4
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 9
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 5
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 10
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 6
- Is it a Stinker or a Lady?
- Grasses revisited
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 11
- Diary of the Switch Grass
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 7
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 12
- Art of Nature
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 8
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 13
- Late-spring in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day in November
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 14
- Foliage Follow Up in November
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 15
- Pattern and Texture
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 16
- Open Gardens visit
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 17
- New Acquisition Solanum jasminoides
- Green November
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 18
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 19
- Pretty feather grass
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 20
- Hot Lips and Calibrachoa
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 21
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 22
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 23
- Gardening mistakes
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 24
- And the award for Miss Photogenic goes to …
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 25
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 26
- Gerbera and friends get potted
- Feathered friends sharing apple crumble
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 27
- Camellia leaf woes
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 28
- Update of the lower back garden
- Bug parade
- Strawberries for Elma
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 29
- Leaves of a Leopard Tree
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 30
- Bugs and things
- New Garden Lessons Learned
- The Gardening Journal in the News
- Mantis mommy laying eggs
- Lavender and Gaura
- SA Garden Magazine on my wish list
- The latest Bug Parade
- Gardenias 101
- Summer at last in the Two Gardens for December Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Foliage Follow-up in December
- The Twelve Days of Christmas
- My Twelve Days of Christmas
- Christmas Day – May it be Merry
- The Rose Bed gets a make-over and then another
- Morning light and holiday delights
- Rooibeksysie in the Pepper Tree
- Holiday Harvests
- 2012 Calendars and Happy New Year
- Gardening Resolutions and 2012 To Do List
- Sunbird in the Hibiscus
- New additions for 2012
- My January Harvest
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day January
- Praying Mantis babies have hatched
- Birthday surprise
- Look who’s eating them apples
- Wordless Wednesday
- Spot The Red
- January in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- January Foliage
- A New Rose
- “Grasses” by Nancy Ondra – A Review
- The Baby Doves in my shade garden
- Who’s living in my sunflowers?
- The First of my Twelve
- Gecko and his dinner
- Ghost Mantis in my garden
- Prehistoric bug
- Heat of the Summer
- A few words about grasses on Wednesday
- Something new for Someone new
- A partly reclaimed view
- Bug-a-boo Zoo
- Mexican Petunia – My favourite plant of the season
- The Sunday Bird Show
- Cleomes in bed
- This ever happen to you?
- My February Harvest
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day for February
- Summer Heat getting to me
- My Summer garden update
- The Ugly Post
- Oxygenators for the pond
- February in two gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Update on the tree planting
- Front garden Panoramas
- Death of a tree
- Big clean up!
- February Foliage Follow-Up
- The Second of my Twelve
- Mini crab spiders
- The Complete Planting Design Course – February Book Review
- Growing Lotus Blossom from Seed
- The Big PRE-Makeover Pond Post
- The Problem with the Thatching Reed
- Lets talk about Mulch
- View from the bench
- Let’s throw stones
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day for March
- From my back deck
- Belated Harvest for Harvest Day
- Autumn in Cape Town
- Lush green for March
- The Latest Garden Lessons Learned
- March in two gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Foliage Follow Up in March
- Artemesia not powiss castle
- Dietes Grandiflora is Third of my Twelve
- Leopard Tree in bloom
- March book review
- Autumn Bird-capades
- I hugged a tree and I liked it
- Grass Feature Patch preview
- My garden in Autumn
- Creating a meadow
- The House Plant (Anthurium andreanum)
- My Veggie Harvest for April
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day April
- A few new plants for the pond
- Happy Easter
- Grasses highlighted – 1st anniversary
- Bug-date
- An Autumn garden
- April in two gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Garlic and heirlooms
- Clivia is Fourth of my Twelve
- April Book Review – Foliage by Nancy Ondra
- Fig Tree damage
- The Colour of Autumn
- Meadow update
- Cleome attack
- Back garden highlighted
- Garden update
- New plants and grasses for the sunny bed
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in May
- Lovely Camellias
- Miscanthus probe
- Garden friends spotted in my garden
- Meadow brief
- Camellia bed update
- Seed collection development
- It’s almost Winter in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Foliage Follow-up – What happened?
- Bulb planting 2012
- Leopard Tree in May
- Bug Day
- Meadow in May
- My Winter garden
- What a Hen House?
- Surprises in the pond
- A wet winter garden
- Two Gardens in Winter for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- What’s this?
- Winter in my garden
- Camellia is fifth of my Twelve
- Foliage in my wet winter garden
- Fleeing Fugitives
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in July
- Meadow in colour
- Bugs ‘n Boids
- Gardening in July
- New patch plantings
- Disaster struck (the story of the overgrown Bougainvillea)
- Mid winter in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Edible flowers in my garden
- Wander about the neighbourhood
- Too pretty to eat
- Biodiversity showcase garden
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in August
- My Late Winter Harvest
- Spring is on its way
- Garden on a plate
- One Minute Tips from Barbie’s Garden – 1
- Garden Bloggers Bloom Day washed out
- One Minute Tips from Barbie’s Garden – 2
- One Minute Tips from Barbie’s Garden – 3
- Something stirring in my garden
- Almost …
- Feeding time
- Happy Spring Day!
- What’s this plant?
- The second Spring day
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in September
- It’s all too beautiful …
- Fence building
- Another rainy day
- Azalea love
- In the grass bed
- Spring in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- What beauties
- Seasonal Celebrations
- Front garden cleanup
- Book Review – Exotic Planting for Adventurous Gardeners
- Spring Splendour
- Six, Seven, Eight
- Painting the pond
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in October
- Small Spring harvest
- A look around
- Babiana Beauties
- Mid-Spring in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Wet October day
- One Minute Tips from Barbie’s Garden – 5
- Last October Days
- My Visit to Seebauer Garden Centre in Munich, Germany
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in November
- Bugs alive
- Just call me Daisy
- End-Spring in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Bugs galore
- Mole control
- New Back garden area
- Grow bag with style
- Hello Summer
- Intimidating …
- A Short but Sweet December Harvest
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in December
- Seasonal Celebrations in the Rose Bed
- Destruction 101
- Summer in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- The Old house
- Happy Festive Season
- Seasonal Celebration
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in January
- The Great Hen House Build
- Mid-summer in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Hen House update
- Ramblers and vines
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in February
- Garden Colour
- Late summer in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Sheeping around
- Front garden activity
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in March
- Throwing Stones
- Early Autumn in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Scary Centipede
- Earth Day clean up
- Mid-Autumn in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- The Gardening Blog in the News!
- What’s growing in my backyard
- My own Compost
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in May
- Autumn colours
- Hail Storm antics
- Dull garden?
- Rainy day blues
- Growing up
- Shabby Chic for the garden
- Garden Bloggers Bloom Day in my winter July 2013
- Growing up revisited
- Mandela Day honoured
- Keep on Growing
- What’s eating my parsley?
- Back in my Garden
- Late Garden Bloggers Bloom Day in September
- Garden Clutter
- Garden Bloggers Bloom Day in October
- October clean up
- Sunflowers from sunny Cape Town
- Badboy bugs
- Garden revamp for water wise gardening
- May Day Blooms
- Garden revival
- November gifts from my Garden
- December 2014 Diaries
- Heat of the Day
- Bountiful fruit
- Harvest Day
- A Bokmakierie in my Garden
- My Greywater System
- Essence of my Winter Garden
- Gutter Garden
- Flourishing in my winter garden
- What’s Hot and What’s Not
- Starke Ayres Garden Centre Visit
- Tea Tree Wonder
- Bugs Galore
- Food Garden
- January Harvest
- May garden walkabout
- Do-it-yourself Worm Farm
- Gardening Courses
- Miscellaneous
- Setting up a gardening blog
- My Gardenias and insect repellent
- The Nogg Urban Chicken Coop
- Baby Dove is doing well
- Baby Dove thriving
- Gifts from the Garden
- Trip to Ferndale
- Baby Dove Day 4
- Friends in my Garden
- Bragging about Roses
- Baby Dove has a Name
- Unusual Planters
- Baby Dove is doing well
- Micro is growing
- We can fly!
- Photo shoot with Micro
- My favourite gardening magazine
- Birds in my garden
- Mildew on the Squash Plant
- Micro part of the family
- Figs ready for jam
- Close encounter with a Hadeda
- Made Fig Jam
- Micro all grown up
- Fig Jam Recipe
- Pretty Petunias
- Snake in the garden
- Micro getting brave
- Micro has tjommies!
- My favourite gardening blogs
- I’ve been in the Garden
- Stellenbosch Botanical Gardens
- Yikes! Mushrooms! what to do?
- Micro all grown up
- Time out with The Gardener on DVD
- The Gardening Blog gets a Logo
- What do you Feed your Plants?
- Hot summer day!
- Whats bugging me today!
- Fertilizers or Compost?
- Neighbourhood Walk in Cape Town
- What are Solifuges?
- What is Organic Gardening?
- Worm Farming
- Why I Love Autumn ♥
- Neighbourhood walk in Philadelphia, Cape Town
- The Cape Garden Centre Review
- Destruction in my garden
- Rare Plant Fair 2011 at Rustenberg Wines
- Rare Indigenous Bulb purchases
- Got to get organised!
- Join the Great Soil Experiment
- Plan for the front patch
- Ruby is missing
- She’s back! Whew!
- My Great Soil Experiment
- Barbie’s Soil Experiment Results
- The new Gardening Journal
- Swallows everywhere!
- Non-plant garden things
- Come Walk with me …
- A Garden Pathway
- Snake in the compost heap!
- Non-plant garden things and some non-garden plant things
- The Gardens at Wildekrans Country Estate
- Sithanda Nursery, Elgin Valley
- Grass Feature – Part 1
- Happy Easter
- Grass Feature – Part 2
- Raindrops keep fallin on my head
- Painting with light!
- Dry bed vs water feature
- Very Scarey Spider – ID help
- Buckets of Lavender
- Autumn in Munich, Germany
- The Gardens at Vergelegen Estate
- Garden glove audition
- Guess what flower!
- Autumn in two Gardens for Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day in May
- Thank you very Mulch
- Mulch mania!
- Project Back garden starts!
- What flower is this!
- And now for something completely different
- Autumn showers
- Hope Grows Day June 2011
- Farewell my feathered friend
- Planting Design Gardening Course progress report
- Wooly winter
- My Gardening Course – this weeks lecture and assignment
- Pretty gum boots
- How much I’ve learnt in ten short months
- Neighbourly animals
- Organic layers
- Recycling drive in Philly
- New garden ornament tuned to c major
- Finished the bed building
- Introducing our Blotsprouts
- Strange onion?
- back-breaking back garden project
- MyGardenSchool Organic Gardening course
- Neutrog in my garden
- New grass patch
- Patchwork Patio plan
- Patchwork Patio design
- My beautiful countryside
- The Mighty Mugwood Tree
- Indigenous Roadside Flora
- Sunbird in my garden
- Happy Birthday
- Sowing the seeds of love
- Bugs eye view
- Sowing the seeds of love
- Not mad about these mushrooms
- I Won, I Won (Actually, the Lily is the Winner)
- Apple Espalier
- My extended back garden
- Illumination a Word for Wednesday on Thursday
- Dance of the Bees
- First visitors to the new Bird Feeder
- I’m Wordless this Wednesday
- New life in my garden
- Miss you
- Bug-eyed
- from wheat fields to vineyards
- Before and After
- Before and after continued ..
- Whats growing in my veggie patch?
- Destruction 101
- Our new Gardening Companion
- Wagtails in my jasmine
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 1
- Malachite sunbird babies
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 2
- One Word Wednesday – Orange
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 4
- The 30 Day Challenge – Day 6
- Grasses revisited
- Art of Nature
- Open Gardens visit
- Green November
- Gardening mistakes
- Feathered friends sharing apple crumble
- Bugs and things
- The Gardening Journal in the News
- Mantis mommy laying eggs
- The Twelve Days of Christmas
- My Twelve Days of Christmas
- Merry Christmas!
- Christmas Day – May it be Merry
- Holiday Harvests
- 2012 Calendars and Happy New Year
- New additions for 2012
- Praying Mantis babies have hatched
- Wordless Wednesday
- Spot The Red
- Ghost Mantis in my garden
- Prehistoric bug
- Heat of the Summer
- Bug-a-boo Zoo
- Big clean up!
- Mini crab spiders
- Growing Lotus Blossom from Seed
- Let’s throw stones
- From my back deck
- Grass Feature Patch preview
- Grasses highlighted – 1st anniversary
- Fig Tree damage
- Miscanthus probe
- Garden friends spotted in my garden
- Seed collection development
- Leopard Tree in May
- Meadow in May
- What a Hen House?
- A wet winter garden
- What’s this?
- Fleeing Fugitives
- Meadow in colour
- Bugs ‘n Boids
- Gardening in July
- Edible flowers in my garden
- Wander about the neighbourhood
- Biodiversity showcase garden
- Garden on a plate
- One Minute Tips from Barbie’s Garden – 2
- One Minute Tips from Barbie’s Garden – 3
- Feeding time
- Happy Spring Day!
- What’s this plant?
- Fence building
- New Back garden area
- Grow bag with style
- Destruction 101
- The Old house
- The big reveal
- Happy Festive Season
- Seasonal Celebration
- The Great Hen House Build
- Hen House update
- Bye-bye Buffy
- Sheeping around
- Throwing Stones
- Early Autumn in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Scary Centipede
- Easter Egg Treasure Hunt in Barbie’s Garden
- The Gardening Blog in the News!
- Barred Rock rocks the Hen House
- My own Compost
- Autumn colours
- Hail Storm antics
- Rainy day blues
- Growing up
- Shabby Chic for the garden
- Mandela Day honoured
- Keep on Growing
- What’s eating my parsley?
- Spotted an Owl
- Badboy bugs
- Garden revamp for water wise gardening
- The Mouse Whisperer
- The Mouse and the Provita
- A Bokmakierie in my Garden
- My Greywater System
- Starke Ayres Garden Centre Visit
- Bugs Galore
- Do-it-yourself Worm Farm
- Perenniels
- Lavender replacement
- Root bound Agapanthus
- Scaevola Aussie Salute
- What’s flowering in my garden
- New Winter Bulbs
- Lovely ornamental grass finds its niche
- Finally Found. Hellebores
- Fairholme Nursery in Elgin
- My Grass Feature
- Heaven Scent Nursery purchases
- A welcome stranger
- Grass Feature – Part 2
- Month-end blooms or non-blooms
- Additional grasses
- Wormwood, mugwort or Powis Castle?
- Guess what flower!
- Chameleon plant update
- Autumn in two Gardens for Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day in May
- What flower is this!
- Another bag of potting soil
- On my Wish List – Crocosmia
- What to do when you don’t like something anymore?
- I Heart Liliums ♥
- My Fuchsia is budding
- Autumn showers
- Guavas and all
- Peony in a packet
- Rose pruning
- Happy Days the Hellebores are waking up
- Powis Castle Art
- Buds galore and my first ever Tulip. Could it be …
- Hellebores in pictures
- Favourite Foliage
- Gaura beauties
- Indigenous Roadside Flora
- Welcome to my garden
- Bulbalicious Beauties on this Fabulous Friday
- Happy Spring Day
- The first Asiatic Lily and other Joys of Spring
- All about Change – the Azalea bed, then and now
- Grass feature revisited
- Love in my garden
- Bugs eye view
- September Foliage Follow up
- Iris – flower for a Goddess
- Lily Love
- Garden Bloggers Foliage Day
- My favourite ground cover flowers unexpectedly
- At last Makhaya Bella flowers
- Miss you
- Going Green
- How are my roses?
- Before and After
- Mid-spring in one garden for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day October
- Back to the garden
- Shopping + gardening = happiness
- Backgarden joy
- Dutch Irises no cigar
- Loving the St Josephs Lilies
- White
- The Rookie Rose Grower
- Abutilon cutting and buds
- Ferns of Southern Africa – a Book Review
- Another favourite Native
- Diary of the Switch Grass
- Foliage Follow Up in November
- Open Gardens visit
- New Acquisition Solanum jasminoides
- Hot Lips and Calibrachoa
- Gardening mistakes
- And the award for Miss Photogenic goes to …
- Update of the lower back garden
- Strawberries for Elma
- New additions for 2012
- Birthday surprise
- Heat of the Summer
- A few words about grasses on Wednesday
- Mexican Petunia – My favourite plant of the season
- Cleomes in bed
- This ever happen to you?
- Summer Heat getting to me
- My Summer garden update
- The Second of my Twelve
- View from the bench
- Lush green for March
- March in two gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Dietes Grandiflora is Third of my Twelve
- Grass Feature Patch preview
- My garden in Autumn
- Creating a meadow
- The House Plant (Anthurium andreanum)
- Grasses highlighted – 1st anniversary
- April in two gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Clivia is Fourth of my Twelve
- The Colour of Autumn
- Meadow update
- Cleome attack
- Back garden highlighted
- Garden update
- New plants and grasses for the sunny bed
- Miscanthus probe
- New patch plantings
- Biodiversity showcase garden
- Spring is on its way
- Something stirring in my garden
- What’s this plant?
- Another rainy day
- Azalea love
- Spring in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Front garden cleanup
- Spring Splendour
- Mid-Spring in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Wet October day
- Last October Days
- Bugs alive
- Just call me Daisy
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in December
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in January
- Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in February
- Garden Colour
- Late summer in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Front garden activity
- Early Autumn in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- Earth Day clean up
- Mid-Autumn in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
- What’s growing in my backyard
- Autumn colours
- Dull garden?
- Garden Bloggers Bloom Day in my winter July 2013
- Growing up revisited
- Garden Clutter
- Garden Bloggers Bloom Day in October
- October clean up
- May Day Blooms
- Gutter Garden
- Food Garden
- Products
- My Gardenias and insect repellent
- The DIY Planter
- Coffee grounds as fertiliser
- New Plant Stand
- Basic organic pesticide
- My Veggie Planter has arrived
- What was in the box?
- The Magic Seeder
- What is Organic Gardening?
- Worm Farming
- Things I need …
- The new Gardening Journal
- Non-plant garden things and some non-garden plant things
- A Solar Mole Repeller – Did they see me coming?
- Bulb planting weekend – Part I
- Back to School
- Groovey gardening gloves
- Thank you very Mulch
- Mulch mania!
- Composting confessions and a solution
- Pretty gum boots
- Neutrog in my garden
- The Gardening Journal in the News
- Lets talk about Mulch
- Grow bag with style
- Starke Ayres Garden Centre Visit
- Recipes
- Reviews
- The DIY Planter
- My favourite gardening magazine
- Ferndale Nurseries – a review
- What was in the box?
- The Magic Seeder
- Stodels Nursery in Kenilworth
- The Cape Garden Centre Review
- Stodels in Kenilworth revisited
- Fairholme Nursery in Elgin
- Best roses in town!
- The Gardens at Wildekrans Country Estate
- Sithanda Nursery, Elgin Valley
- Earth Day Reading Project
- Blotanical – On being a “Blotanist” and new Gardening Friends
- Groovey gardening gloves
- Harry Goemans Garden Centre – a review
- Ferns of Southern Africa – a Book Review
- SA Garden Magazine on my wish list
- “Grasses” by Nancy Ondra – A Review
- The Complete Planting Design Course – February Book Review
- Lets talk about Mulch
- March book review
- April Book Review – Foliage by Nancy Ondra
- Biodiversity showcase garden
- Book Review – Exotic Planting for Adventurous Gardeners
- My Visit to Seebauer Garden Centre in Munich, Germany
- Starke Ayres Garden Centre Visit
- Trees
- The Willow Tree – then and now
- Hibiscus
- Sweetgum Tree
- What tree is this?
- Cherry blossom?
- Angel’s Trumpet
- Lemon Tree Rescue
- New Fruit in my Garden
- Mackaya Bella – Forest Bell Bush
- Look what I found whilst weeding!
- My little guava tree
- My Lemon Tree
- Good, bad or just ugly?
- Birds a bathing
- The big Leopard Tree planting!
- Guavas and all
- Tree work, blocked drains and mayhem
- Claiming back my privacy
- Up close and personal with the Pittosporum
- Tree ID help
- New Lemon and Lime
- The Mighty Mugwood Tree
- Apple Espalier
- Dance of the Bees
- For the Birds …
- Mid-spring in one garden for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day October
- Parent Trees
- Backgarden joy
- Loving the St Josephs Lilies
- First lemon and lime
- Leaves of a Leopard Tree
- Merry Christmas!
- Death of a tree
- The Second of my Twelve
- Leopard Tree in bloom
- I hugged a tree and I liked it
- Leopard Tree in May
- Front garden activity
- Bountiful fruit
- Tea Tree Wonder
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