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Category: Trees

19 February 202220 January 2023 Janette Bennett

Eight things I love about Rhodes Village

Ambles, Eastern Cape, Slow travel, Trees
Eight things I love about Rhodes Village

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

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21 October 202128 April 2025 Janette Bennett

The green jewel of the east coast

Eastern Cape, Environment, Garden, Trees, Wild things
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

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8 January 202020 January 2023 Janette Bennett

Wilderness man

Environment, People, Trees, Wild things, Wilderness
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

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17 December 201920 January 2023 Janette Bennett

Evergreen joys

Environment, Handmade, Reinvention, Trees
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,

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5 December 20196 December 2019 Janette Bennett

I’m planting trees. Are you?

Environment, Technology, Trees, Work-life
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

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3 September 201220 January 2023 Under the milkwood

In search of the lemonwoods

Ambles, Eastern Cape, Trees, Wild things
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

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23 August 201220 January 2023 Under the milkwood

Go native

Eastern Cape, Environment, Garden, Trees, Wild things
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

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1 April 201220 January 2023 Under the milkwood

Familiar comfort

Eastern Cape, Garden, Life, Trees
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

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27 March 201220 January 2023 Under the milkwood

Here and now

Garden, Life, Trees, Work-life
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

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