​ Kirstenbosch Annual Garden Fair and Plant Sale The Kirstenbosch Branch of the Botanical Society’s 37th annual Garden Fair and plant sale will be held on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 May 2012 at the Stone Cottages, on the corner of Rhodes and Kirstenbosch Drives, opposite the main entrance to Kirstenbosch Gardens. This ...

​Diary of Events   For confirmation, details and directions for all outings please email Lindsay Bowker at lindsaybowker@gmail.com or call on 071 452 7063   Krantzkloof Nature Reserve (Nkutu), Kloof Saturday, 12 May: 14H00 Forest & grassland walk accompanied by John Terblanche. Meet at Nkutu parking area.   Talk: Hope for our Wildflowers - CREW successes with threatened plant species of KZN Monday, 28 May: 18H00 Visitors ...

​In January we had a great weekend at Blinkwater, looking for the recently described endangered aloe, Aloe neilcrouchii (named for our KZN ethnobotanist). The new species is rather like a giant Aloe boylei, but has pronounced stems and differences in leaf morphology. During a good hike across the top of the Blinkwater to ...

A capacity crowd of about 150 packed the presentation room at McDonalds Garden Centre on Saturday 25 February, to hear local gardening-legend, Nancy Gardiner, speak on the topic of Kitchen Gardening. Celma Croudace excelled with arranging publicity and the feature article on Nancy that was published in The Witness the day before ensured ...