The Green House

Exquisite sewing in this spiders web .jpg

Dudu in the kitchen - love the haziness of the cellphone pic

in tidying more I nearly destroyed these tiny mushrooms in a rotting jacaranda log .jpg

More Mushrooms and fungi - wood piles are great! .jpg

Rawsonia lucida flowers .jpg

Umgeni Heights Durban North | Botanical Society indigenous garden tour | 24 March 2012

Cleaning up in corners of the garden where we tidy intermittantly reveal invasive alien plants such as Rivina humilis and many Litsea sebifera (= glutinosa)

Richard Vilakazi looking at the devastation caused by the collapse of the very old and large Ficus burkei

Nut grass as pioneer to loosen hard soils and allow others to follow and establish .jpg

KZN indigenous pioneer - Trema oriental Piegeonwood and Elm Family .jpg

Chili bushes .jpg

Melia azederach or Syringa or Silinga (invasive) .jpg

Sunlight has allowed millions of seeds in the ground, hibernating, to germinate - Paw paws .jpg

Who lives here? .jpg

Sculptural .jpg

Backyard fungi - leave fallen branches in a corner or as a feature and get these bonuses .jpg

Rooftop skies .jpg

First Rawsonia fruit! .jpg

Rawsonia lucida slightly damaged, but looking good! .jpg

Saved!.jpg

Laportea .jpg

Rhinacanthus gracilis, Dainty Spurs - in need of water, mainly because the plants are in pots. Garden specimens doing well despite lack of rain.

Heat and drought effect on Isoglossa, Plectranthus and Laportea

Isoglossa woodii showing effects of heat and no rain

Wilting Isoglossa woodii - wondering whether the effects of cycllone Irina will be felt soon?