Guidelines for cultivation of succulent plants. Between 2005 and June 2011 maintained by Herman and Yvonne who nowadays 'explore' The Green Cathedral of South Africa in Stanford, Western Cape. Herman and Yvonne restored and extended the historical Soekershof Gardens in Robertson between April 2000 and June 2011.

Posts tagged ‘flowers’

Wanna see some flowers?

Have a look here. Experiencing their flagrances is a different story. For that you will have to travel to this place by the British newspaper The Independent described as “Best Garden in Western Cape” (9 January 2010)

A flowering Ariocarpus in the open

Here at Soekershof, Private Mazes & Botanical Gardens in South Africa, it’s a challenge to grow all kinds of succulent plants outside.

Even so called ‘difficult’ ones.

Of the Ariocarpus species it was said to us, four years ago when we acquired them, that it is impossible to grow them under the open sky in South Africa.

But we do. We created an elevated acre with poor sandy, rocky, soil with additional drainage 20 centimeter beneath the surface. And they are still growing; they are even flowering every now and than.

 

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