My Bio-Diverse suburban
indigenous forest garden was planted exclusively to a very large number
of species of indigenous plants many of them rare or unusual was a
haven to birds, insects in particular butterflies, reptiles, frogs,
fruit bats, large spotted genets and monkeys paid regular visits.
My garden in which I had planted every tree and plant mostly from seed
or small cuttings is an outstanding working example of what you can
also do to create a pleasing, interesting, tranquil, well planned
garden that can also bring an amazing amount of wildlife back into the
city.
On returning to South Africa in
1907 I bought a house with a very run down property at Mount Moreland,
the property had been used as a dumping site for builders rubble and
used motor spares, old tyres etc. and was completely over grown with
alien invasive tress and shrubs. Now a number of years later I have
transformed this new property into a haven for wildlife