Creative Gardening with Indigenous Plants: A South African GuideThis 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. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | 8 |
Garden biomes | 18 |
Make magic with birds | 28 |
Copyright | |
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Creative Gardening with Indigenous Plants: A South African Guide Pitta Joffe,Tinus Oberholzer No preview available - 2012 |
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ACANTHACEAE add plenty African Green Pigeon Aloe ASTERACEAE barbets bark beautiful Blackcollared Botswana Bush bushpigs bushveld butterfly feed Cape White-eye clumps coastal colour contains plenty Crested Barbet CULTIVATION Easily propagated CULTIVATION Propagate dark-green foliage dense DESCRIPTION Eastern Cape eaten evergreen FABACEAE fairly farms and game fast-growing fern fertiliser flowers are followed flowers attract forest margins frost fruits game farms glossy dark-green grassland green grey groundcover grows moderately fast informal shrub border insectivorous birds insects KwaZulu-Natal Larvae leafmould louries Mass plant moist mulch N.So Namibia NATURAL DISTRIBUTION Rocky nectar office complex gardens organic material pink plenty of compost pods pollinators pond propagated from seed Protea Prune RELATED SPECIES rhizomes rockery root system rounded S.So shade shrub small tree soil that contains South Africa Southern Boubou spring stream succulent summer sunbirds tiny traditionally water regularly well-drained soil winter wood woodland yellow young plants Zimbabwe