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Liven up your garden with colourful choices for your indoor and outdoor spaces

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By Heidi Bertish  | August 14, 2017 | Gardens

Liven up your garden with colourful choices for your indoor and outdoor spaces. Gardens editor Heidi Bertish rounds up her favourite new plants and accessories.

Outside In (Above)

Locally designed and printed, ‘Foliage on Pink’ wallpaper by Handmade by Me brings the outdoors in with a playful design. R443 per square metre.

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handmadebyme.co.za

Harvest Now

Home-grown Aquadulce broad beans are a welcome relief to the slim pickings of the mid-winter vegetable garden (sow seeds in March or September).

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seedsforafrica.co.za

Step Out

Liven up your wardrobe with a pair of Hunter Chelsea boots for women, available in a range of colours.

Wish List

Mia Mélange’s newest range of cotton rope baskets features a striking green accent and offers a stylish solution for displaying your indoor plants. From R250 each.

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miamelange.com

Conscious Gardening

This mix of dusty pink Sedum specitible, Bearded iris and the frothy Carex ‘Evergold’ in a garden designed by Franchesca Watson makes for the prettiest water-wise plant combo. ‘I love the juxtaposition of bold and fine plant textures,’ she says.

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