gardens

Growing a Vegetable Garden Might Be Just What You Need During the Coronavirus Crisis

We asked the experts how to get started so you can begin enjoying the fruits of your labour as early as next month

How to grow basil

In an extract from his new book, 'Grow Fruit and Vegetables in Pots', Aaron Bertelsen, vegetable gardener and cook at Great Dixter, offers advice for how to grow basil

How to take care of your garden while the country is on lockdown

While we do our bit to flatten the curve of the coronavirus pandemic in South Africa with self-distancing and self-isolation, why not use this time to learn a new skill?

Follow these 5 Instagram accounts for some gardening inspo

Thanks to South Africa's sunny disposition, it doesn't take much to get the gardening tools out and start digging.

How to nurture your small piece of the Earth, without harming the rest of it

In the quest for the perfect home landscape, homeowners have great capacity to do damage

How to create a beautifully blue garden

Life Is A Garden's tips on adding the 2020 Pantone colour of the year to your garden

Exceptional perennial varieties keep a garden fresh and interesting

Here, on the threshold of the growing season, the gardener salivates over the prospect of trying new plants

TOKARA's rare plant fair

Meander through tranquil walks dotted with sculptures by local artists while taking in the vistas over the large garden dam

Herbs that add not only flavour in the kitchen but beauty in the garden

Chives and oregano can enhance your cooking and add beauty to your yard

The future of botanical illustration is endangered, but the job is vital

Alice Tangerini and her colleagues have devoted their lives to the task of discovering, and thus protecting, plant species and their ecologies that are the basis of life on Earth

The hellebore: Popular and now available in a dazzling variety

A hardy perennial that's won a place in the heart of the gardener and shows no sign of becoming disfavoured or trite

Enhance your meals with edible flowers

Life is a Garden shares a few ways to dress your meals up with edible flowers

Gardens seem to have lost their fragrance. We can ﬁx that

Look back at gardens full of rose bowers, wisterias and lilacs and you'll think that earlier generations valued this sensory delight more than we do. But the array of scented plants available to us is bountiful

A guide to making the best of December in your garden

It?s time for some Summer fun in the garden, so here are a few tips from Life is a Garden to ensure that it is ready for some R&R with friends and family