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If you’ve ever looked at a bouquet and wondered “what the heck is THAT flower,” chances are it was a protea. Here's all about the protea and how to care for one.
If you're bad at a game of cards with friends, you might be better at words therefore being a master at Scrabble. Well, there is a South African version OUT NOW!
The classic family-favourite word-forming game, has now launched a local version.
With national landmarks such as Table Mountain, Scrabble South Africa is a physical representation of the phrase ‘Local is Lekker'!
THIS week tales of beauty and a beast of a beauty hit my inbox... Arthur Howett, from Seaview, sent me a photograph of his beautiful display of cymbidium orchids (main image above). Days later Maurice Preece, from Havenstreet, pinged me a photo of his King Protea, one of the most impressive national flowers of any country, but something of a beast to propagate from seed, I have found. Maurice went the other route, buying a plant six or seven years ago from a Cornish nursery at a flower show at RHS Wisley — and it has just flowered — and magnificently too.