Our Blog: Plants and other Stories Know Grow Protect Enjoy #HABITAT#BIRDS Speakers: ​Monique Mc Quillan, Andre Venter,  Francois Cilliers, Helen Mitchell, Ceinwen Smith, Hosted by Cherise Viljoen   MAY, 30 2024 | LIVE ZOOM WEBINAR RECORDING. PHOTOS: SUPPLIED. Ecosystem Corridors – a web of plant connection with a focus on Birds Join us for the webinar, “Ecosystem Corridors – a web of plant connection with a focus on Birds” – where we will showcase and share some wonderful initiatives that reports on linking remnant plant habitats for plant and wildlife conservation in urban ..read more

Our Blog: Plants and other Stories Know Grow Protect Enjoy #SMART#INDIGENOUS ​​DR MARTINA TREURNICH, CHERISE VILJOEN, ANDY DE WET, SISANDE VELEMBO-STOKWE AND MASHUDU TSHITERKE   MARCH, 28 2023 | LIVE ZOOM WEBINAR RECORDING. PHOTOS: SUPPLIED. Climate Smart Gardening in Autumn Join us as we head on a journey to explore BotSoc’s mantra to “know, grow, protect and enjoy” South Africa’s indigenous plants. This month’s webinar hosted by Master Horticulturist Cherise Viljoen will showcase how to practically apply climate-smart gardening techniques, using attractive indigenous plants an ..read more

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MEET THE CURATOR Growing resilience Walking into the Harold Porter National Botanical Garden in Betty’s Bay to a view stretching from a lily pond to the xxx mountains is a peaceful moment – but succeeding as curator of this fire and flood-prone garden requires a stout heart and creative energy INTERVIEW AND PHOTO BY BY PATRICIA McCRACKEN MEET THE CURATOR Growing resilience Walking into the Harold Porter National Botanical Garden in Betty’s Bay to a view stretching from a lily pond to the xxx mountains is a peaceful moment – but succeeding as curator of this fire and flood-prone garden requ ..read more

#PROTECT The puzzle of the pepperbark tree Is the pepperbark doomed to die out in the Kruger National Park? Pepperbark detectives KAYLEE VAN DEN BOSCH, GLYNIS CRON, DAVE THOMPSON & ED WITKOWSKI went searching for answers to the mystery of why it is failing to reproduce The puzzle of the pepperbark tree  Is the pepperbark doomed to die out in the Kruger National Park? Pepperbark detectives KAYLEE VAN DEN BOSCH, GLYNIS CRON, DAVE THOMPSON & ED WITKOWSKI went searching for answers to the mystery of why it is failing to reproduce BY BRIDGET PITT On the Kruger Park’s rocky slo ..read more

BETWEEN THE LEAVES Picture perfect Discover the secrets behind those great photographs released by Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden – and taken by photographer and environmental interpretation officer Alice Notten INTERVIEW BY PATRICIA MCCRACKEN. PHOTOS BY ALICE NOTTEN Picture perfect Discover the secrets behind those great photographs released by Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden – and taken by photographer and environmental interpretation officer Alice Notten INTERVIEW BY PATRICIA MCCRACKEN. PHOTOS BY ALICE NOTTEN A group of visitors pause to enjoy the shade of the dell unde ..read more

THE BIG PICTURE Tracking flora up a Madagascan massif RALPH CLARK & ANDRINAJORO RAKOTOARIVELO visited the little-known Ankaratra massif to assess its potential as a test site to monitor Madagascar’s response to man-made threats, from deforestation and fire to invasive plants and climate change PHOTOS BY ANDRINAJORO RAKOTOARIVELO Tracking flora up a Madagascan massif RALPH CLARK & ANDRINAJORO RAKOTOARIVELO visited the little-known Ankaratra massif to assess its potential as a test site to monitor Madagascar’s response to man-made threats, from deforestation and fire to invasive pl ..read more

#KNOW Unpicking the Clanwilliam cedar naming war Follow the twists and turns of a botanical detective story after local botanists were shocked by the Clanwilliam cedar losing its proudly SA botanical name more than a decade ago. Now they are celebrating the elegant casework of PETER LINDER and JOHN MANNING, who have succeeded in restoring it to the world. Photos by PETER LINDER Unpicking the Clanwilliam cedar naming war Follow the twists and turns of a botanical detective story after local botanists were shocked by the Clanwilliam cedar losing its proudly SA botanical name more than a de ..read more