Meet The Authors

The 2024 Vetplantfees is proud to have 2 book authors in attendance whose work has added knowledge to the hobby of appreciating succulent plants and their neighbors in the veld. Please go to the shed at the Station to visit these two wonderful creators of educational material on our favorite subject. Dr. Ernst van Jaarsveld Dr. Ernst van Jaarsveld: latest book is on waterwise gardening and will soon prove to be a top seller in garden related books. He will be at the Authors table on and off during the weekend. Detlef Schnabel His first book on succulent plants is a masterpiece. Information and beautiful photos of plants in the veld are in the book. The title, “Succulent Plants of the Southeastern Karoo” shows the specific area that Detlef studied and recorded for the publication. He has included some very insightful articles on various subjects surrounding the definitions and descriptions of plants that we call “Succulent”.

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Book Launch: Lithops in Habitat and Cultivation. Available at Vetplantfees

SA new book are being released at the 2021 Vetplantfees. Title: Lithops in Habitat and Cultivation. Authored by Roy…

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Workshop – Succulent Plant Propagation

A dedicated workshop to teach you how propagate succulents from seed or cuttings. Offered by Yvonne Hemenway, one of…

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Workshop – Container Gardening with Succulents

A dedicated workshop to teach you how to best approach gardening with succulents in containers. Offered by Alison James,…

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Bookings Open – Veld Walks – Vetplantfees 2021

Trained Cape Nature guides will escort small groups of enthusiast on a 90-minute walk to Calitzdorp’s famous Jakkalskop where…

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Flowering Right Now – March 2018

Check out these beauties we found flowering in the Klein Karoo in the last couple of days. Remember to…

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Surviving in times of drought. How plants do it?

  Text: Luise Granig This article appeared in the February 2018 Newsletter of the Johannesburg Succulent Society and are reprinted with…

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Flowering Right Now – February 2018

Buck Hemenway, Chairman of the Calitzdorp Succulent Society, shared some pictures of the succulents currently flowering in the Hemenways’…

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Discover Mesembs – Veld Walk & Seed Workshop

Join the Calitzdorp Succulent Society and Priscilla Burgoyne the Herbarium Curator at the…

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New Book Hits a High Note with Festivalgoers

What a privileged it was to have Robin Fransden attending the Vetplantfees and launching his book “Succulents of Southern…

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