Duranta Sheena’s Gold
Price: R15.00 – R24.50
This ‘loved by all’ fast grower shrub is planted throughout the warmer regions of South Africa in a wide and diverse range of garden applications, including hedging and topiaries. It is mostly used as a formal or informal hedge and also great in pots on patios. It can be topiarised into whatever shape. A minimum spacing of 0.3m when planting is recommended for best results
In all applications, the plant requires regular trimming to keep it in good shape.
Duranta as standard (or topiary), needs strong support-stakes to compensate for apparent weakness, especially when the head matures and becomes almost top-heavy.
Location : Duranta Sheena’s Gold’ maximizes it beauty in full sun positions. In colder climates the foliage turns purple to black in winter. During July and August months, it’s advisable to cover new plants with frost covers/blankets to minimize loss of plants.
Available Bags: 2.5L, 10L and 20L
Buxus Sempervirens
Price: R25.00 – R30.00
Buxus Sempervirens, or the common Boxwood, is an ever green, hardy, and slow grower best suitable for the brutal Gauteng, Free State and Western Cape icy winter weather. Landscapers and gardeners prefer it for low use it extensively for low hedging and topiary. Plants should be spaced at 20 cm intervals and the recommended height to which it should be grown is 30 to 50 cm, with a suggested base width of 25 to 35 cm.
Location: Buxus grows in full sun to light shade reaching about 1m x 90 cm if untrimmed. Buxus tolerates a range of light conditions from full sun to fairly dense shade. The plan needs plenty of water in warm weather but will grow practically anywhere, even in high frost and cold areas.
Available in 2.5L bags
Star Jasmine Trachelospermum Jasminoides
Price: R25.00 – R35.00
Star Jasmine is an energetic grower that can very rapidly cover a wire fence or climb to the top of a tree. If a gardener is willing to give it a wire trellis, the jasmine will quickly envelop pillars with an array of leaves and will spread itself over the beams of a pergola. Landscapers like to use this creeper as a ground cover because it rapidly fills large tracts of land in both the hottest sun and in the cool shade of deciduous trees.
In modern horticulture and particularly in small gardens, Star Jasmine has become an iconic pot plant because it can so easily be trained up steel obelisks or wooden tepees. Planted in hanging baskets, the stems tumble beautifully over the sides when they are heavy with flowers.
Location Star. Star Jasmine grows everywhere and can withstand cold and frost. However, it does get damaged by strong winter conditions but it recovers easily to its former glory with new shoots. It also grows in deep shade but will not flower. It also preferswell-drained soil. Mulch that keeps the roots cool and damp for longer will save water. Young plants need regular water while they are becoming established; thereafter they are relatively drought-resistant and suffer little damage when watering is withheld. Potted jasmine needs to be watered regularly otherwise the leaves become pale and yellow. Prune regularly to keep the plants neat and to stimulate dense growth.
Available in 2L and 5L bags.
Dietes Grandiflora
Price: R20.00 – R30.00
Dietes Grandiflora also known as the Large Wild Iris, or African irisDietes is a rhizomatous perennial plant of the family Iridaceae with long, rigid, sword-like green leaves. South African landscapers prefer to use it for large public gardens such as entrances to shopping malls and along roadsides. Plants prefer spotted shade to full sun where they will flower in abundance, though they will grow in shaded areas). Under favourable conditions, the bunches multiply quickly. Dietes grandiflora are drought and frost hardy, making them popular for mass plantings.
Location: The plants are both frost and drought hardy and will grow in either sun or shade. However, for best results and most flowers, plant Dietes grandiflora in full sun or light shade in well composted, well drained soil and water well in summer.
Available in 2L Bags
Freylinia Tropica
Price: R25.00 – R30.00
Freylinia is natural in certain areas of Limpopo and Zimbambwe. It is a compressed shrub or small tree with slim, slackly dispersal branches when untamed. It is forever flowering, giving delicate flowers in white or lilac colors. The white flowering form is usually not as upright in its growth form as the blue. It produces flowers throughout the year but the main flowering time for this stunning shrub is just before spring when most plants are not. Freylinia attracts butterflies and various insects to the garden. It makes a good screen plant and can be clipped into a formal hedge or used in an informal hedge. Whilst it suitable for a bush garden, it also makes a beautiful container plant.
Location: Freylinia grows in sun or semi-shade area. In the direct sunlight, young plants should be watered regularly for two seasons.
Available in 4L bags
Vibernum Odoratissimum and Sinensis
Price: R40.00 – R70.00
Vibernum Odoratissimum is one of low-maintenance and problem free for lovers of beautiful formal hedges. It is also suitable for windbreaks and can easily be topiarised and be planted in pot. A very fast growing plant of note, it’s got very green glossy leaves that can withstand icy temperature of up to minus 8 degree Celsius. This forever green plant can grow up to 4 meters height and 2 meters wide. During Spring season, it’s beautiful white leaves attract bees and birds to the garden.
Location: Viburnums prefer a cool, temperate climate with wet summers, but also endure the more challenging conditions on either side of that spectrum.
Available in 5L and 20L
Agave Attenuata (Foxtail Agave)
Price: R60.00 – R95.00
Agave Attenuata is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, commonly known as the foxtail or lion’s tail. Native to the plateaux of central west Mexico, as one of the unarmed agaves, it is popular as an ornamental plant in gardens in many other places with subtropical and warm climates. Agave makes a perfect focal point in your landscape. Those fleshy, green leaves form a rosette which are arching back slightly, looking like a large, open flower. Foxtail agave flowers only once in its lifetime. It’ll occur only when the plant reaches a mature stage. The flowers would appear during spring or summer.
Location: Outdoors, they can grow big. So, make sure to give them plenty of space because also produce offshoots on the base, so expect that they’ll become dense.
Our plants are sold to retail nurseries, property developers, landscapers and home owners in the following areas: Centurion, Pretoria East, Pretoria North, Midrand, Hartebeesport and Krugersdorp.
