For the Birds Garden Care

For the Birds Garden Care Making sure your garden in Kenton on Sea looks its best during all seasons. Garden Maintenance & Care

Local Eastern Cape plantings, planting for the birds, for drought resistance & for lower maintenance.

Asked by clients to cleanup an overgrown and wild garden, and use the existing plants and structure to make it look good...
17/09/2018

Asked by clients to cleanup an overgrown and wild garden, and use the existing plants and structure to make it look good. In other words, a low cost transformation. This is what we are good at. This garden was all a tangle, full of bad, dead and good plants. We took out the bad and the dead, and resurrected the good and gave them new life in strategic places : )

Spending time on holiday is made sweeter when the outside area you 'live' in makes you happy rather than frustrated. We are gardeners as opposed to landscapers, so are more likely to present you with something rustic and appealing than something manicured and perfect.

If you want a good cleanup of your garden before the Summer holidays, please contact For the Birds Garden Care today.

The before photos and then the after photos. A very big garden and a big job done in 5 days.

In addition to caring for gardens, I'm establishing a garden of English Roses for weddings and events and beautiful, fr...
08/02/2018

In addition to caring for gardens, I'm establishing a garden of English Roses for weddings and events and beautiful, fragrant bunches. I'm still busy testing varieties, but will have a few bunches available each week. If you want to place an order, please inbox me. Watered with rainwater.

Cycling on the Grahamstown road the other day, 2 flowering plants caught my eye and I later drove out to identify them -...
18/08/2017

Cycling on the Grahamstown road the other day, 2 flowering plants caught my eye and I later drove out to identify them - a Crossberry and a Deurmekaarbos, in full flower. Two great plants for the bird garden.The next time I rode out I turned early and was cycling back alone, and 2 big tawny mounds in an open patch caught my eye. Sleeping Eland? Boulders? As my chain squeaked along, they lifted their big tawny heads and looked at me with yellow eyes. I put my head down quietly and rode swiftly on, and was too busy thinking about lionesses vs cyclists to notice any flowering bushes on my way home. These are not my photos, and I didn't get one of the lionesses either. It's wild here, man.

09/08/2017

So my first post is not about birds in the garden, but about a more unexpected creature. The pool in our garden has been empty since the last drought, just collecting a bit of rainwater and sludge. It's at the bottom of the garden, and something of an eyesore, so it seldom gets visited. Last week Iwas standing there contemplating its future, and a round, brown back sank back into the water. A big bullfrog? Later the water cleared a bit, and I caught sight of a terrapin swimming past. I put a log into the water as there was nowhere for it to rest out of the water, and soon he was sunning himself on the log every time I went down to peep at him through the bushes. He's very shy. Phoning Kariega to find out how a terrapin got into a steep-sided, deep but empty swimming pool, they said they walk miles over land to get to a new water source.They suggested I fish it out and release it near a dam. Meanwhile back at the pool, there were now 2 terrapins sunning themselves on the log. They slipped off at the sight of us, and trawling through the water with the pool net we came up with nothing. So now I contemplate whether the future of the pool should include two terrapins.

31/07/2017

"Crowned Hornbill, frequents riverine and coastal forests on the eastern coast of southern Africa. May enter gardens in urban areas. " I find them exciting birds in the garden, because one associates them with the bush and the wild. They give one's garden a touch of wildness with their presence.

Tree logs as garden furniture or garden art. Beautifully textured and detailed, they make a deeply satisfying seat too....
31/07/2017

Tree logs as garden furniture or garden art. Beautifully textured and detailed, they make a deeply satisfying seat too. Plus an entire world lives in and around them, creating it's own mini ecosystem. This is a trend that's definitely on my bucket list. And the more lichen, the better.

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