Air layering is a technique that has been around the block and yet still manages to capture the attention of budding...

Trees | Air layering

Climbing plants make their way up in the world by clinging and twining around natural or man-made support. Due to this growth...

Pruning climbers

Perfumed gardens have such a romantic feel about them and spring is the perfect time to enjoy these fragrances in your own...

Planting for fragrance

Most gardens need climbers. They can be grown on pergolas, as barrier plants along fences, against buildings to soften walls...

Indigenous climbers for the garden

Bees are one of the most important pollinator species in the world and as gardeners, it is our responsibility to provide a...

Bee-friendly gardening

Borage

Mimosa

Achillea

Aloe

Alpine Forget-Me-Not

Alkanet

Mountain Rock Cress

Mugwort

Bay Tree

Berg Lily

Paper flower

Broom

Powder puff tree

Bottlebrush

Bellflower

Cape Chestnut

Cape Honeysuckle

Bastard jasmine

Flowering Maple

Golden apple

Clover

Common Lime

Cornflower

Cotoneaster

Jade plant

Creeping Knotweed

Duranta

English Wallflower

Heaths

Coral tree

False Acacia

Cape jasmine

Garland Chrysanthemum

Garlic

Golden Rod

Spider flower

Hawthorn

Hebe

Heliotrope

Holly

Hollyhock

Honey Locust

Horse Chestnut

Jacaranda

Japanese Crab Apple

Jasmine

Kappertjie (Afr.)

Kei-Apple

Blossom Tree

Ice Plant

Larkspur

Laurustinus

Honeysuckle

Paper Bark

Iron tree

Mexican Orange Blossom

Mint

Moroccan Toadflax

Murraya

Myoporum

Myrtle

Natal Flame Bush

Natal Plum

Catmint

Allium 'Violet Beauty'

Poppy

Sweet Pea

Photinia glabra

Pink Wild Pear

Poinsettia

Pompon Tree

Privet

Protea

Purple Rock Cress

Firethorn

Pyramid Tree

Rangoon Creeper

Rosemary

Sage

Satin Flower

Sausage Tree

Scadoxus

Squill

Sunflower

Syringa Berrytree

Thyme

Tree Wisteria

Weeping Boer Bean

Wild Pomegranate

Wisteria

Bees + Butterflies | Wildlife Friendly

Boston Ivy

Canary Creeper

Glory flower

Carolina Jessamine

Golden Trumpet

Pandorea

Pink Jasmine

Queen's Wreath

Rocktrumpet

Star Jasmine

Care-Free Climbers

Surround yourself with fragrance by including these to create a scented escape. 

Angel's trumpet

Lily-of-the-valley

Daphne

Frangipani

Freesia

Grape Hyacinth

Hyacinth

Lilac

Lily

Lily Of The Valley

Sweet olive

Syringa

Rose

Stock

Tobacco Plant

Viburnum

Fragrant Flowers - Top 20

Some of the many plants which you can take semi-ripe cuttings from in summer. 

Barberry

Buxus

Shrubby ragwort

Buddleia

Californian Lilac

Camellia

Cherry Laurel

Chinese Bramble

Flame Nettle

Escallonia

Castor oil plant

Hardy Geranium

Hyssop

Lamium

Lavender

Mahonia

Mallow

Blue Passion Flower

Potato Vine

Rock Rose

Shrubby Bindweed

Spiraea

Sterjasmyn (Afr.)

Periwinkle

Plants for Summer Cuttings

Include any of these plants into your garden to provide shelter and food for birds. 

Michaelmas daisy

Crab Apple

Cypress

Dog Rose

Guelder Rose

Moyes Rose

Plume Thistle

Ramanas Rose

Rowan tree

Teasel

Plants to Encourage Birds in Your Garden

Juanulloa

Alison

Azara

Baneberry 'Brunette'

Carnation

Christmas Box

Clematis 'Lady Northcliffe' (EL)

Chocolate Cosmos

Easter Broom

Witch Hazel

Liquidamber

Saucer magnolia

Peony

Phlox

Snowdrop 'S. Arnott'

Liquid Amber

Sweet Violet

Sweet Coneflower

Sweet Woodruff

Wintersweet

Scented

Alpines

Belladonna Lily

Freesia refracta

Japan Daphne

Kumquat

Large - Flowered Magnolia

Lotus Lily

Banana shrub

Mock Orange

Wild Jonquil

Evening primrose

Peruvian Daffodil

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