Lifestyle Create a beautiful city garden Lifestyle February 13, 2011 Create a beautiful city garden City dwellers are leading the green revolution. Here’s how to grow your own greens on a balcony or in a small city garden. Full Article
Lifestyle Four seasons of fragrance Lifestyle February 11, 2011 Four seasons of fragrance Tough as well as bountiful, our indigenous pelargoniums are among the most popular garden and pot plants in the world. Seductive, late-night clouds of perfume are a bonus. Full Article
Lifestyle About love Lifestyle February 10, 2011 About love Artists Geoffrey Armstrong and Wendy Vincent spend their summers working on their magnum opus in the Magaliesberg. It’s a landscape that’s also the ultimate African garden. Full Article
Lifestyle Water lilies: mandala of light Lifestyle February 10, 2011 Water lilies: mandala of light If you have a pond in your garden, plant water lilies. Or, as they do in the East, plant a lotus. Sooner or later a bud will rise from the muddy depths. Full Article
Lifestyle The crucible Lifestyle February 10, 2011 The crucible For veld and fynbos, fire is an enigmatic source of new life. A devastating blaze that swept through Grootbos Nature Reserve has triggered a near- miraculous renewal and reflowering. Full Article
Lifestyle Bold papery lanterns Lifestyle February 9, 2011 Bold papery lanterns Is your garden let down by a drab patch that could do with a bright explosion of colour? Try detonating a bougainvillea bomb and then standing back to watch the effect. Full Article
Architecture Northern exposure Architecture February 8, 2011 Northern exposure Architect Leon Barnard was responsible for Windhoek’s tallest and first-ever green skyscraper, but for himself he built “an ordinary, basic barn with bedrooms at both ends”. Full Article
Lifestyle Forest fantasy Lifestyle February 8, 2011 Forest fantasy It has taken fashion designer Clive Rundle 15 years of intensive gardening to create this apparently neglected Victorian garden in Kensington, Johannesburg. Full Article
