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Term Tuesday | Perennial

Gazania krebsiana

African daisy

Karoo Marigold

Curly Leaf Arctotis

Coast Arctotis

Narrow-Leaved Arctotis

African Daisy

Renoster Arctotis

Rough Arctotis

Namaqua Marigold

Putswa-Pududu

Namaqualand Arctotis

Chrysanthemoides

Bietou

Rain Daisy

Cape Marguerite

Trailing Pink Daisy

Ox-Eye Daisy

Namaqualand Daisy

Sundays River Daisy

Rain Flower

White Moon Daisy

Wild Rosemary

Coast Wild Rosemary

Euryops

Lace-Leaf Euryops

Woolly Resin Bush

Geelmadeliefiebos

Nieuwoudtville Resin Bush

Narrow-Leaved Resin Bush

Sehlakoana Se Senyenyane

Grootharpuisbos

Tyson's Euruops

Honey Euryops

Wagener's Resin Bush

Limestone Euryops

De Hoop Euryops

Giant Resinbush

‘Silver Sunshine’ Resin Bush

Blue daisy

Wild Michaelmas Daisy

Wild Aster

True-Blue Daisy

Dwarf Felicia

Dune Daisy

Fine-Leaved Felicia

Saldanha Felicia

Felicia josephinae

Blue Felicia Bush

Gazania

Treasure Flower

Karoo Gazania

Gazania 'Kiss'

Gazania splendidissima

Terracotta Gazania

Treasure Flower 'Red Stripe'

Gazania 'Daybreak XP'

Trailing Gazania

Rock Daisy

Coast Metalasia

Slangbos

Hartebeeskaroobos (Afr.)

Coast Senecio

Large Senecio

Silver Lace-Leaf Ursinia

Daisies | Fynbos

Aptenia

Broad-Leaved Bulbine

Cape Agapanthus

Creeping Foxglove

Darling Lampranthus

Fairy Crassula

Fairy Stars

Geelblom

Kidney-Leaved Pelargonium

Carpet Geranium

Purple Vygie

Red-Stem Crassula

Rose Vygie

Silky Cotula

Smelly Spur Flower

Spatula-Leaf Crassula

Trailing Phlox

White Carpet

Wood Iris

Indigenous Groundcovers | Bees

Aloe verecunda

Balloon Milkweed

South African thistle

Blue Sceptre

Blue Stars

Bulbine

Bulbine bulbosa

Falling Stars

Quilted-leaved Vernonia

Khutsana

Marsh Butterfly Lily

Rivierklokkie

Purple Berkheya

Southern River Bell

Stalked Bulbine

Star Flower

Ucabazane

Umadotsheni

Weeping Anthericum

Winter Poker

Indigenous Perennials | Bees

African Wormwood

Agapanthus

Asparagus Meyers

Kanna

Common Agapanthus

African daisy 'Pink Whirls'

Cape Scabious

Cobra Lily

Bush Lily

Twinspur

Carpet Daisy

Euphorbia schinzii

Forest Lily

Barberton Daisy

Greater Red-Hot Poker

Fireball Lily

Christmas Bells

Cape Marigold

Ivy-Leaved Pelargonium

Ibutha

Spotted Aloe

Cape Smilax

Silver Bush Everlasting

Large Wild Iris

Leatherleaf Fern

Maidenhair Fern

Mother In Laws Tongue

Nemesia

Paintbrush Lily

African gladiolus

Pig's Ears

Pineapple Flower

Sorrel

Sour Fig

Hen-And-Chickens

Sprenger's Asparagus Fern

Sutera

Gossip Spurflower

Tonga Pelargonium

Thicket Spurflower

Bugle lily

White Paintbrush

Wild Garlic

Wild Squill

Yellow Everlasting

Yellow Wild Iris

Perennials | Indigenous

Amaranthus caudatus 'Green Necklace'

Amaranthus 'Tricolor'

Bitter Aloe

Cape Pond Weed

Dune Spinach

Eastern Cape Cycad

Elephant's Foot

Golden Carpet

Kambroo

Karee

Karoo Boer-Bean

Porcupine Potato

Purple Amaranth

Scrambling Fig

Spekboom

Tortoise Berry

Namaqua Wild Cabbage

Waterberry

Broad-Leaf Watsonia

Wild Almond

Wild Grape

Wild Olive

Veldkos

Arctotis auriculata

Dimorphotheca pluvialis

Felicia amelloides

Watering

Peronosporaceae

Downy Mildew

Botrytis cinerea

Botrytis

Seed

Cuttings

USDA zone

Attracts useful insects

Pot plant

Drought resistant