#Trees - 38 posts

I hosted a jacaranda walk through Rosebank, together with the Johannesburg in Your Pocket Guide and the Redisson Red Hotel.

I went back to visit the Wonderboom Nature Reserve in Pretoria after ten years away. It was just as delightful as I remembered.

I made a pilgrimmage up to Herbert Baker Street in Pretoria to photograph the famous white jacaranda trees. The flowers put on a show.

The jacaranda trees in Joburg are blooming particularly late this year. In this post I will speculate in why.

It's Day 18 of the South African COVID-19 lockdown and today I hugged a tree. If you're fortunate to have access to a tree, please hug it.

The shot hole borer is a tiny beetle from Asia that is infesting and killing South Africa's trees. Here is some background information and tips to fight it.

I spent three days at the Return Africa lodge in the Pafuri Triangle, a corner of the northern Kruger populated by giant elephants and and baobab trees.

This is my third summer in Joburg and I’ve yet to write a post about jacarandas. The jacarandas bloom around October or November, and the Jozi suburbs …

Tomorrow is Heritage Day, a South African public holiday. South Africa has lots of public holidays. I have trouble keeping track of them and what they mean. …

Pine forests don’t belong in Southern Africa. Like countless other non-native plants and animals, pine trees were brought here by Europeans and continue …

As long as I’ve lived here, the view from the deck at the Lucky 5 Star has been a wall of green. It was one of my favorite things about the house – …

Part 3 of a 3-part series about the Cederberg Heritage Route. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. When I left off, my travel companions and I had spent a magical …