Flowers

The number 1 killer of orchids, in my experience, is overwatering. My advice is to repot #orchids into a loose & fast draining mix of mostly bark chips, if they…

This has been a wonderful week for my orchids. Although very hot and dry until today’s afternoon shower, I managed to keep all the orchids well fed and watered. Here…

My Victorian style orchid fever, has continued with Oncidium orchids. The one in the main picture is Oncidium (Beallara / Aliceara) Peggy Ruth Carpenter. Oncidium alliance orchids are easy to…

The summer garden has been showing off lately. So many beautiful herbs, fruit and veggies in bloom and fruiting. We have also been blessed with lots of rain in between…

Did you know there is a very special orchid that smells just like chococolate? Let me tell you more about it and show you two of mine. Please LIKE, COMMENT…

I can’t explain exactly how it came to be, but a couple of weeks ago I fell head-first into the orchid hobby. I have always associated orchids with elegant ladies,…

We’ve had a good week weather-wise. Pleasant days of cool mornings, hot around midday and the typical Highveld afternoon thunderstorms. The Vaal dam is still desperately under capacity and our…

Lemon-scented herbs are amongst my favourites. I’m currently growing lemon thyme, lemongrass and the subject of today’s post: Lemon verbena (Aloysia citrodora). I love to walk past the herb and…

This is one of my favourite times of year. The weather is warming up, which means more days of gardening and an explosion of colour as spring blooming bulbs open…

We were recently at Walkhaven Dog park and I planned to take loads of macro pictures and some portraits with the 100mm and the 50mm lenses. Just my luck to…