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Indigenous plants, farm life and wild food in Cape Point

Category: Wildlife

Tortoises, lizzards, birds, linx, spotted gennet cat, owl, snakes, spiders, wasps, bees, 2 year old son, dogs, cats and chickens :)

Autumn

We have had an eventful past few days with glorious rainfall and not so glorious visits from baboons yesterday and porcupines last night. The plants have been… Read more “Autumn”

April 18, 2013 by Good Hope Nursery

Summer time and the living is breezy

 February is the hottest month of our year! The snakes and tortoises are wide awake. We are having to remove certain tortoises quite often from the veggie… Read more “Summer time and the living is breezy”

February 15, 2013 by Good Hope Nursery

Spring time at Good Hope Gardens Nursery

I love Springtime at Cape Point. Mild sunny weather with no wind, beautiful fynbos flowers on show, tortoises start emerging (and some snakes too) a few showers… Read more “Spring time at Good Hope Gardens Nursery”

September 28, 2012 by Good Hope Nursery

80 potatoes and a baby Cape Cobra

It is another stunning day here at Cape Point: In the veggie garden things are growing and we have been busy sowing yet another garden with all… Read more “80 potatoes and a baby Cape Cobra”

April 3, 2012 by Good Hope Nursery

If a picture is worth a thousand words…

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then here is 10,000 words of what we have been up to this wintery month…

June 30, 2011 by Good Hope Nursery

Back at work/in the garden

So we have returned from an amazing time-out. Annual holidays are the greatest, but it’s also kind of great to be back at the nursery…. On day… Read more “Back at work/in the garden”

August 18, 2010 by Good Hope Nursery

Porcupine, traps, world cup and roof gardens.

The reason for such a gap in blog updates? Er…dog ate my homework? Well,  close enough…they stole my camera and ran off with it. They have annoying… Read more “Porcupine, traps, world cup and roof gardens.”

June 17, 2010 by Good Hope Nursery

The sun, the rain, tiny tomatoes and chickens.

I had to relinquish the camera back to sister # 1. So for todays story, you’ll just have to use your imagination for the  images! It was… Read more “The sun, the rain, tiny tomatoes and chickens.”

March 12, 2010March 12, 2010 by Good Hope Nursery

Snakes alive!

Yesterday while I was baking some death-by-chocolate muffins and the sun still baking outside, Taskmaster called me into the garden. “You wont believe this.” He said with… Read more “Snakes alive!”

March 9, 2010 by Good Hope Nursery

Smile like you mean it.

Yesterday was a great day. I decided to be nice to everyone. Eye contact, smile, full attention. It was very interesting. I got: 1 Proposal (from assistant… Read more “Smile like you mean it.”

February 25, 2010 by Good Hope Nursery

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