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Blooming indigenous for petite gardens!

We have our own fuchsias…

The Cape fuchsia is a fast-growing, multi-branching plant with soft, oval, dark green leaves and weeping tube-like flowers that are loved by sugarbirds and sunbirds. In nature it grows naturally near water in sun to light shade.

‘Candydrops’ is a range of very free-flowering and bushy plants available in red, cream and deep rose. (40cm x 90cm).

Hello, little sweet pea!

Its big sister, the September bush, grows into a large shrub but the dwarf form (called too) is a neat, rounded little evergreen cutie with small, green and somewhat heart-shaped leaves

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