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Eight things I love about Rhodes Village
19 February 202220 February 2022 Janette Bennett

Eight things I love about Rhodes Village

Ambles, Eastern Cape, Slow travel, Trees

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 hamlet. It’s so lovely that I decided to share a list of my favourites with

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My top tips for chasing flowers
8 October 202110 October 2021 Janette Bennett

My top tips for chasing flowers

Ambles, Slow travel, Wild things

The flowers are fading, pulling on their seedy caps to sleep for another year. After a prolonged drought, it has been a magnificent year for flowers in Namaqualand and the West Coast. We were lucky enough to see some of

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Taking a walk with Nomama Mei
2 December 201930 December 2019 Janette Bennett

Taking a walk with Nomama Mei

Eastern Cape, Environment, People

Nomama Mei and I are walking, and talking, along the shore of the Kwelera Nature Reserve, now part of the new Kwelera National Botanical Garden. Mid-sentence, she crouches and strokes a plant with wide, green leaves, just emerging from the

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Jewels of the bush
11 September 20126 December 2019 Under the milkwood

Jewels of the bush

Eastern Cape, Garden, Propagation

Not long after we moved to East London, I found myself wending my car along a dusty farm track. I was searching for a nursery I’d heard about, one with a great variety of bromeliads, indigenous bulbs and clivia. Suddenly,

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The colour orange
1 June 201224 November 2019 Under the milkwood

The colour orange

Garden, Wild things

One of the things I love about living in my part of this part of the world is that there is always something to make you happy in the garden, even as we creep towards mid-winter (officially, that’s just three

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Beauty behind the beasty thorns
16 May 20122 December 2019 Under the milkwood

Beauty behind the beasty thorns

Garden

Collecting plants was never intentional, but I guess it’s the kind of gardener I turned out to be. In fact, the collecting itch is as old as my first stirrings of any interest in gardening. That was in Durban, when

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Sun is shining
30 March 201224 November 2019 Under the milkwood

Sun is shining

Garden

Today, the sun made a brief appearance before the rain came down again. But I picked some flowers – strelitzia and other pretty things – and this corner of the kitchen looks like sunshine to me. It’s no surprise that

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