Plant of the Month – Coast Scabious
For November, Outeniquasbosch Wildlife Village highlights Scabiosa incisa, commonly known as Coast Scabious or Koringblommetjie.
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Protecting Our Public Green Areas
Protecting Our Public Green Areas: Planting and Vegetation Removal At Outeniquasbosch Wildlife Village, our public green areas are an important part of the estate’s natural environment. These shared spaces are carefully managed to protect indigenous vegetation, support wildlife and maintain the natural character of our surroundings. While we appreciate residents who wish to contribute to
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Understanding the Outeniquasbosch Landscape Manual
Understanding the Outeniquasbosch Landscape Manual: Your Garden, Rehabilitation Area, and Green Areas Explained Outeniquasbosch was never meant to be a garden estate in the conventional sense. It was built on land that once supported a mosaic of fynbos, renosterveld and valley bushveld, and the guiding idea behind our Landscape Manual is simple: bring that mosaic
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Plant of the Month – Yellow Pincushion
Why Indigenous Plants Matter at Outeniquasbosch
Why Indigenous Plants Matter at Outeniquasbosch Outeniquasbosch sits within one of the richest floral regions on Earth. The Cape Floral Kingdom covers less than 90,000 square kilometers, yet it holds around 8,500 plant species, roughly two-thirds of which occur nowhere else on the planet. Our estate’s own vegetation is a mosaic of four of this
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Designing a Bushveld Garden
For something with a rugged, semi-arid character — iconic thorn trees, open-canopy shrubs and waving grasses — a bushveld-inspired garden delivers a bold, informal, wildlife-friendly look. It's worth being clear up front that this is an inspired style rat
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Designing with Thicket
If fynbos is fine and silvery and renosterveld is grassy and bulb-rich, thicket is the green, generous one of the family. It's dense, evergreen and semi-succulent — a comfortable tangle of woody shrubs, aloes and small trees that thrives in the sheltered,
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Designing with Renosterveld
Renosterveld is the understated cousin of the showier fynbos — and once you learn to read it, it's every bit as captivating. Where fynbos thrives on the poor, sandy, acidic soils of our slopes, renosterveld grows on the richer clay and shale soils of the
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