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Gardeners Group

The second meeting of the Gardeners Group was on Monday 20 August 2018. Perhaps because we are all so grateful for rain, the prospect of a drippy walkabout on this Monday morning did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of our newly-formed Gardeners Group. There was the promise of weather clearing up later in the morning so 23 of us showed up for an exploration of three gardens – this time located at the Pringle Bay end of Betty's Bay. The gardens again differed greatly as to their terrain, soil conditions and age, and once again…
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FEBRUARY TALK

Andrea Benn On Saturday 20 February, Sean Privett of Fynbos Trails gave a talk on ‘Forests in the fynbos, the southernmost Forests in Africa’. Sean Privett is a passionate naturalist with a wealth of information about the unique pockets of forests among the fynbos. These are found between Danger Point and Stanford. On a world scale they are tiny, but big in the fynbos. The fynbos around these forests is itself special with several endemic species including four limestone aloes. In 1938 the first aerial photography was done. The most recent in 2014 showed a…
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