It’s gardening month … embrace it!

Love the idea of having house plants, but you’re not known for your green fingers? This silk hanging dracena & mixed greens arrangement is exactly what you need. All the effect, none of the watering. R2150.

 

We’re also crazy about these vintage floral prints, which come in a size to suit (from A 4 to A0), are printed on fine art paper using pigment-based archival inks, and are available framed or not. Priced from around R480, there’s a hard-to-choose-selection on bespokehome.co.za

 

It’s Garden Day. Celebrate.

Whether your idea of a garden is a desert rose succulent in a pot on your desk, a herb box on the kitchen windowsill, or a manicured-to-within-an-inch-of-its-life garden with precisely mown lawn and a clipped box hedge … celebrate it. Later this month it’s Garden Day … so wear a flower crown, share a pot of hibiscus tea and lavender shortbread with a garden-loving friend, plant a rose bush, and raise a glass of bubbles (with elderflower sryup) to our gardens. Garden Day was created by Candide, the app for plant lovers, with the aim of encouraging people to reconnect with their gardens and share the joy of gardening. Garden Day will host a programme of garden-themed activities like yoga, flower crown-making workshops, garden-inspired gourmet and more. It’s on Sunday, October 11 and everyone is encouraged to join the celebration live on Zoom and Facebook.
Details: Find the programme details on gardenday.co.za/events

Prettiest drinks for Garden Day …

We dig these cans of Kleijne Wijn Gezelschap wine. Our fave is this blushing pale pink Pinot Noir Rosé bubbly, all fresh strawberry, bright wild cherry and light notes of spice. Dry, with a delicate effervescence, it’s what we’ll be drinking this month.
There’s also a Sauv Blanc and Merlot.  R129.99 for four from winecan.co.za

 

 

 

 

Almost too pretty to use … there’s a sensational range of prettily packaged Rio Largo olive oils and vinegars at oliodesignandco.za/shop/ This one – 2 litres of exceptionally good oil – costs R399

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you can’t grow them, wear them. Surround yourself in a soft floral musk scent … Marc Jacobs Daisy Love Eau So Sweet really is. R910 from woolworths.co.za