The road has led me to Rhodes Village in the Eastern Cape Highlands and I’m slowly getting to savour the gems in this Southern Drakensberg
Category: Trees
The green jewel of the east coast
Kwelera National Botanical Garden takes shape We’re standing in the middle of a wetland deep in the cultivated portion of the Kwelera National Botanical
Wilderness man
Connecting with a legend of conservation, Paul Dutton, at his Shangri-La It’s a big and blue day on the beach at Salt Rock on KwaZulu-Natal’s
Evergreen joys
Christmas, for me, is about being with people I care about. On the big Day, we gather to eat together, often under the milkwood trees,
I’m planting trees. Are you?
Every single time I do an Internet search, I am planting trees. Yes, you read that correctly. And you might have noticed that I did
In search of the lemonwoods
Up. The thin path winds through the forest, up and up the mountain. And we keep going. V and I are searching for the grove
Go native
Down here in South Africa, especially along the coast, we seem to have a perpetual fixation with palm trees. I know, I know … we’re
Familiar comfort
The milkwood tree has been a constant in my life for as long as I remember. The trees grow prolifically in the coastal dune forests
Here and now
Not that long ago, I clawed and sweated my way along the corporate ladder. This was the done thing, so it seemed, and I worked