My Garden in South Africa

Our grandchildren enjoyed my garden when they lived in my home for six months last year

Acacia karoo, one of the three sweet thorn trees in my garden has fluffy round yellow balls which smell divine

A garden should have many "rooms" to make it interesting. Here we are walking between two of the rooms in my garden on the way to several more up ahead
Late afternoon sun plays across the lawn towards the bench at the main pond
(pictured below)

Soft evening reflections across the water surface calms the soul

I'm not too clued up on exotics so to me this is merely a daisy which grows very well in our area
Above is one of my alltime favourite indigenous shrubs: Euryops spp. It flowers (displaying these bright yellow flowers) for nine months of the year

Gaura lindheimeri (butterfly bush) is also not indigenous but as a perennial it retoons year after year, creating a splash of colour

while attracting a myriad of butterflies

Another non-indigenous perennial in my garden: the day lily

Solanum spp (potato bush) non-indigenous but endemic to our area in the Free State

Pride of India (Lagerstromia indica) another non-indigenous shrub in my garden

Although the above creeper is seen all over town, no-one has ever been able to tell me what it is called. A golden trumpet flower? It is non-invasive, dies down in winter and returns to bloom profusely during the summer

A close up of the "golden trumpet flower"

Climbing roses on the wall facing the street

Six-year-old granddaughter loves the outdoors and spends hours in the garden looking for bugs and other interesting creepy-crawlies

My dry rock garden which contains primarily Barbeton daisies (gerbera spp) Aloe spp, Cotelydon obeculata, portulacaria and Cussonia spicata (Cabbage tree-rear centre)

A walk down through two rooms towards the dry rock garden (pictured above)

Another view of the garden from the ponds

One of my three [interlinked] garden ponds

The view up the driveway toward the motor gate.Pudding, my dear old lady cat rests in the evening shade