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Caring about trees

You can change your mind about any other plant by simply replacing it with something else. But changing your mind about an unsuitable tree planted in the wrong place causes heartache…

Being near beautiful trees, and knowing stories about them, will inspire more people to collectively plant more of them and take care of them, because all trees ever do is give.

Being locked up for months because of COVID has taught us just how much we appreciate the wide outdoors of our beautiful country, filled with so many trees, indigenous as well as exotic.

They are treasures that generate oxygen, store carbon, stabilise the soil and give shade, food and shelter to man and wildlife. For sheer impact and ethereal quality, no living organism can weigh up to a mighty tree.

Go visit our heritage

Here in Southern Africa we are lucky to have some of the most iconic trees in the world, and you can become one of the trendy tree lover’s family by taking yourself on a tree safari in 2021 to visit some of them.

The giver of life where it’s rugged and dry…

The Baobab

Baobabs slowly grow into giants that live for hundreds to thousands of years. They sometimes look as though they’ve been planted upside-down, and their trunks are of such wide girth that some hollowed-out trees became used as prisons, pubs, bus shelters and water reservoirs. For the

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