Finally the garden is waking up! The first sign that winter was at an end, was the bright splashes of the Clivias, they looked stunning i...

Southern Masked Weaver (Ploceus velatus) building his nest in my garden Winter (and what a winter it has been! With snow, hail, floods ...

There's a whisper in the garden that spring might be on her way... .

Never yet was there a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.   — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster The 1st of September is officiall...

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.  - Bret Harte  South Africa is famous for its sunshine. A subt...

May all seasons be sweet to thee...  A few weeks ago, we had what I call a "false" spring - green buds on the Celtis africa...

Every spring is the only spring - a perpetual astonishment.   - Ellis Peters  Don't ask me where I was on the first of August (...

… hangers-on will be forced to let go,  making room for new growth  fresh color,  life.  ::   A little corner created in the s...

Spring fever and summer madness happen on a smallholding over-night. The one minute you're still in the grip of ice cold frost and t...

A cycle has been completed once again - June, and another Winter on our doorsteps. Winter 2006, as the picture shows, was quite severe f...