Succulent Cupcakes available at Vetplantfees

Something new and VERY succulent. Nereen Saayman, is creating Succulent Cupcakes. Her designs are so realistic that we have…

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Workshop – Succulent Plant Propagation

New at Vetplantfees 2018, a dedicated workshop to teach you how propagate succulents from seed or cuttings. Offered by…

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Workshop – Container Gardening with Succulents

New at Vetplantfees 2018, a dedicated workshop to teach you how to best approach gardening with succulents in containers….

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Bookings Open – Veld Walks – Vetplantfees 2018

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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Plant of the Month – May 2018

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Plant of the Month – Apr 2018

Faucaria tigrina Faucaria tigrina (Haworth 1789) (Tiger Jaws, Shark Jaws, Tierbekvygie) The first documented discovery of Faucaria tigrina was during an…

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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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Plant of the Month – Mar 2018

Euphorbia gamkensis (Marx 1999) Calitzdorp Euphorbia Our own Calitzdorp Euphorbia. Euphorbis gamkensis grows a large, more or less cylindrical underground…

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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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