Turning trash into living treasure could be the theme of the annual Boknes Garden Club show. What you see in the village’s Daniel Scheepers community hall for two days every December is testimony to can-do attitude and sheer koppigheid.…
In a recent Friends of Bathurst Nature talk in partnership with the U3A in Port Alfred, Japie Buckle, a highly respected restoration ecologist and Managing Director of Hive Ecosystems, shed light on the concept of rewilding and its…
A table full of plants is not an unusual sight at Friends of Waters Meeting’s monthly meetings at Pike’s Post at the Ploughman in Bathurst. After all, Thicket (the biome) is at the heart of the Waters Meeting Reserve. What was unexpected…
Gardeners across Port Alfred and Kenton opened their homes and showcased their gardens during the Port Alfred Garden Club’s Open Gardens event on Saturday October 14 and Sunday October 15. This year there were 10 gardens on show. Talk of…
Jo-Anne Hilliar is a well-known South African landscape design consultant who is now, but due to Covid, working mainly internationally and operating under the company name of Landscape Design Consultants International. Working within the…
One in seven of the thousands of plants and animals assessed by the SA National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) in its latest four-year study is threatened with extinction. In its report‚ released on October 2‚ SANBI found that well over…
