Thinking of traveling to South Africa, Road Trips Gardeners? Consider a stop at the Makana Botanical Gardens in Grahamstown for the third Flower Festival. It’s set for October 29 and 30, 2011.
Guest speakers are Tanya …

It’s coming into spring in the Southern Hemisphere, Road Trips Gardeners, and just the right time for wildflowers.
Some of the most colorful (such as those in the photograph) are in bloom in Darling, a community …

Road Trips Gardeners who love orchids might want to put South Africa on their travel schedules. First up is the annual orchid show May 28 to 30, 2010, organized by the Orchid Society of Northern …

Some may visit for the landscape, but most Road Trips Gardeners put distant climes on their travel schedules to see the plants: especially indigenous plants. One garden that emphasizes native flora is Kirstenbosch National Botanical …

By Ellen Park
The Road Trips Gardener
Pamplemousse means grapefruit in English, so it really isn’t a good name for the 62 acres of botanical delights on the island nation of Mauritius known as the