Flower of the month (March 2012) – Protea subvestita Common name: Lipflower protea / Sugarbush Qhoza, Zulu: Isiqalaba Borrowed Qhoza name by Basotho: Seqalaba se sesoeu…
Maliba Lodge Mountain Lodge message: Alpine plants in their environment can look spectacular when we talk of alpine plants we do not mean the alpine plants found in the Alps, but those specialist species…
Description Asteraceae – Daisy family Felicia drakensbergensis is a domed shaped and grey leaved shrub. It grows to a height of 0.1-0.3meters, same behaviour with any other high altitude shrub species. Blue flowers about…
Introduction: Some of these small but lovely flowers are very clever as they only show themselves in a very dry grassland habitat or sometimes immediately after grassland burning they become the first conspicuous flowers…
Introduction: An indigenous garden is simply not complete without this little redhead (Morita-nkoe (Sesotho) or Rooihartjie (Afrikaans)) will light one corner in your garden. This plant does well in our cool grassland vegetation of…
This is where you find a mosaic of species ranging from red, white, pink, yellow, blue, maroon and etc. When almost all the species have finished flowering, the little white…
The name Hesperantha means ‘evening flower’ and the genus comprises 65 species which are distributed through both the summer and winter rainfall areas of South Africa.…
It is an annual plant that grows in herbaceous form. It’s growing in high altitude basaltic soils. It has conspicuous hairs on the stems. Interestingly the flowers are bright yellow, inside and chocolate brown…
It is a small aquatic located first from high altitude rock pools in Sehlabathebe National Park, in what was thought to be only a 3 hectare area. Flowering in January, the flowers are borne…
Aloe polyphylla is a national flower of Lesotho, apart from the most beautiful aloe it is a lovely garden plant especially on rock gardens. Very characteristic is the unique spiral arrangement of the…
Kherere (Sotho); Inguduza (Zulu); Blouslangkop (Afrikaans); Blue-squill / Blue Scilla of Africa (English) Description: Hyacinthaceae – family Scilla natalensis is a graceful perennial bulb. The leaves are broad and sharply tapering, narrowing at…
Euryops tysonii is a lovely shrub for the garden Euryops tysonii (it was named after William Tyson)) - Sehlakoana se senyenyane (Sesotho name) with showy yellow flowers all summer and an interesting upright habit.…
Introduction: The UN has declared 2010 as an international year of Biodiversity. It is also the year that we celebrate the achievements in plant conservation. As such Maliba Mountain Lodge also strives to promote…