Protea Pink Ice

Copyright © 2010 Bianca Gubalke. Visit the original article at http://biancagubalke.com/south-africa/protea-pink-ice/.Protea Pink Ice Although it was an overcast and stormy day, I spent most of it in the magnificent garden of a friend and neighbour, here in Noordhoek, South Africa – who has invited me to take pictures of  his masterspiece of a home. Here [...]

Pink Rose

By Zo NicholasPink Rose
As the wind blows of the sea all the garden plants really struggle to keep their heads.  [ This reminds me  of the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderful, 'off with their heads'.] Even the pink roses have a hard time standing straight against the wind. Although we are already  in  June, most days are below 20C [...]

Christmas 2009

Christmas 2009 The flurries of snow turned into a blizzard overnight, but here by this morning we saw the snow slowly melting as the temperature increased to just over freezing. In our corner of the world we often escape the worst of the weather, however elsewhere heavy snowfalls in the U.K. have caused travel chaos, [...]

Hidden Treasure in my garden

Hidden Treasure in my garden Taking advantage of the beautiful weather here today, a cloudless sky and so little wind, we continued with the re-erecting of fence panels that the wind had demolished. While digging round some old roots, to our big surprise out popped a slow worm. My first ever slow worm! (I’ve never [...]

Freesia maintenance

Freesia maintenance of nutrient probes Weekly maintenance of nutrient probes One of the main things to be done weekly is the calibration of the cf and ph probes.   CF and PH probes To calibrate the ph probe the control is set to calibrate then the probe is rinsed in clean water then placed in [...]