Gardeners Guide Indigenous Garden Plants Of Southern Africa

Download or read book Gardener’s Guide Indigenous Garden Plants of Southern Africa written by Glenice Ebedes and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handy pocket guide introduces local gardening enthusiasts to some of southern Africa’s most beautiful, beneficial and easy-to-care-for indigenous plants, giving guidance on how best to use them and how to ensure that they flourish. It offers: a selection of 145 garden-friendly, low-maintenance trees, shrubs and bedding plants perfectly adapted to our local soils and weather conditions, text that’s direct and simple, Full-colour photographs that show plant details and ‘in context’ planting, Icons indicating at a glance whether a species is evergreen or deciduous, frost-hardy, suitable for a sunny or shaded position, fast or slow-growing, water wise, fragrant and attractive to insects or birds. An essential handbook for easy-care beautiful gardening.