The art of Bonsai has been around for centuries, inspiring generations of newcomers. It is a form of art that transcend...

Bonsai Beginners

Easter is the perfect time to engage your kids in fun gardening activities and to teach them about plants, nature, and virtues...

Easter Crafts for Kids

We are celebrating Arbor Week in South Africa - a perfect opportunity to plant a tree. Trees give so much to humanity, from...

How to plant a tree

Choosing a tree can be quite a daunting task due to the many factors to take into account and also the many different tree...

How to choose a tree

We’re celebrating World Wildlife Day today and what better way to celebrate this day than enjoying the diversity of plant and...

Attract birds and butterflies to your garden with these plants

This week, Ernst van Jaarsveld shares on indigenous trees suitable for a Highveld garden. If you're planting a new garden or...

Ask Ernst | Trees for Transvaal gardens

Meet Gardener of the week, Gundula Deutschlander - artist and plantswoman with a wonderful talent for telling stories and...

Featured Gardener | @Gundula

Winter is around the corner and an interesting hobby to start with while spending more time under shelter is the art of...

Winter fun with Bonsai! 

African Dogwood

African Tuliptree

White Stinkwood

Assegai

Bladdernut

Breede River Yellowwood

Buffalo thorn (Eng.)

Red Alder

Aralia californica

Cabbage Tree

Cape Ebony

Cape Holly

Cape Chestnut

Cheesewood

Coastal Camphor Bush

Coast Coral Tree

Wild Fig

Commiphora

Crossberry

Dune Crow-Berry

Fever Tree

Flat Top Acasia

Henkel's Yellowwood

Karee

Karoo Boer-Bean

Kei-Apple

Lavender Tree

Mickey Mouse Bush

White Milkwood

Monkey Thorn Tree

Mountain Ash

Mountain Cedar

Mountain Hard Pear

Natal Flame Bush

Glossy Bottlebrush

Natal Mahogany

Bird of Paradise

Pachypodium

Paperbark Thorn

Pepper-Bark Tree

Pink Keurboom

Pink Wild Pear

Pistol Bush

Pompon Tree

Wild Pride Of India

Muhovho-Hovho

River Bushwillow

Mountain Maytenus

Sand Olive

Sausage Tree

Silver Tree

Poke-Me-Boy

Tree Fuchsia

Turkey Berry

Waterberry

Waterpear

Weeping Boer Bean

White Ironwood

White Karee

White Pear

Wild Plum

Wild Pomegranate

Wild Olive

Wild Peach

Outeniqua Yellowwood

African trees

Australian honeysuckle

Banyan Fig

Baobab

Benjamin Fig

Bo tree

Broadpod Robust Thorn

Camel Thorn

Cherry Tree

Chinese Elm

Common Guava

Curtain Fig

Desert Rose

Dwarf Umbrella Tree

Fagus sylvatica f. purpurea

False Olive

Ficus sycomorus

Great Bougainvillea

Herringbone Cotoneaster

Jacaranda

Jade Plant

Japanese Maple

Juniper

Crepe myrtle

Laurel Fig

Mooka

Moumo

Natal Fig

Oldwood

Olive

Pine

Japanese red pine

Japanese black pine

Pomegranate

Rough-Leaf African Mallow

Scrambling Fig

Sweet Thorn

Umnumbi

red-leaved rock fig

Bonsai Trees

Babul

Bottlebrush

Camphor Bush

Carob Tree

Common Coral Tree

Hopseed Bush

Paper Bark

Mphahla

Trees | Waterwise Plants

Amaranthus caudatus 'Green Necklace'

Amaranthus 'Tricolor'

Bitter Aloe

Cape Pond Weed

Dune Spinach

Eastern Cape Cycad

Elephant's Foot

Golden Carpet

Kambroo

Porcupine Potato

Purple Amaranth

Sour Fig

Spekboom

Terracotta Gazania

Tortoise Berry

Namaqua Wild Cabbage

Broad-Leaf Watsonia

Wild Almond

Wild Grape

Veldkos

Watering

Eriosoma lanigerum

Woolly Aphid

Seed

USDA zone

Attracts birds

Attracts useful insects

Drought resistant

Pot plant

Wet sites