Comments on: Fynbos in Khayelitsha http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/antheabuys/2009/04/30/back-ache-cape-09-and-the-first-official-provisional-fynbos-museum-of-the-greater-khayelitsha-area/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:41:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Louis http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/antheabuys/2009/04/30/back-ache-cape-09-and-the-first-official-provisional-fynbos-museum-of-the-greater-khayelitsha-area/comment-page-1/#comment-88676 Louis Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:15:41 +0000 http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/antheabuys/2009/04/30/back-ache-cape-09-and-the-first-official-provisional-fynbos-museum-of-the-greater-khayelitsha-area/#comment-88676 I am only now starting to appreciate Fynbos. Where I live now there is a lot. The flowers are really amazing. Is the Fynbos garden still there to come and look at? I am only now starting to appreciate Fynbos. Where I live now there is a lot. The flowers are really amazing. Is the Fynbos garden still there to come and look at?

]]> By: ninapit http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/antheabuys/2009/04/30/back-ache-cape-09-and-the-first-official-provisional-fynbos-museum-of-the-greater-khayelitsha-area/comment-page-1/#comment-81578 ninapit Fri, 15 May 2009 07:06:20 +0000 http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/antheabuys/2009/04/30/back-ache-cape-09-and-the-first-official-provisional-fynbos-museum-of-the-greater-khayelitsha-area/#comment-81578 For interest's sake (because one can actually learn to have green fingers by studying plants): Fynbos is used to growing in "infertile" soil, so that their roots are very adept at sucking every last drop of potassium and phosphorous out of the soil. This means that adding manure to your fynbos plant would practically burn the roots and plant as it 'overdoses' on these two chemicals. ;) For interest’s sake (because one can actually learn to have green fingers by studying plants): Fynbos is used to growing in “infertile” soil, so that their roots are very adept at sucking every last drop of potassium and phosphorous out of the soil. This means that adding manure to your fynbos plant would practically burn the roots and plant as it ‘overdoses’ on these two chemicals. ;)

]]> By: Neville http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/antheabuys/2009/04/30/back-ache-cape-09-and-the-first-official-provisional-fynbos-museum-of-the-greater-khayelitsha-area/comment-page-1/#comment-80878 Neville Sat, 09 May 2009 20:36:02 +0000 http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/antheabuys/2009/04/30/back-ache-cape-09-and-the-first-official-provisional-fynbos-museum-of-the-greater-khayelitsha-area/#comment-80878 why self denigrate? do you feel guilty? why self denigrate? do you feel guilty?

]]> By: Stan ... http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/antheabuys/2009/04/30/back-ache-cape-09-and-the-first-official-provisional-fynbos-museum-of-the-greater-khayelitsha-area/comment-page-1/#comment-80650 Stan ... Thu, 07 May 2009 17:51:15 +0000 http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/antheabuys/2009/04/30/back-ache-cape-09-and-the-first-official-provisional-fynbos-museum-of-the-greater-khayelitsha-area/#comment-80650 Fynbos in Khayelitsha! Surely you would have a better following if you planted marijuana ... just joking. Loved the light heartedness of the article. Thanks. Fynbos in Khayelitsha! Surely you would have a better following if you planted marijuana … just joking. Loved the light heartedness of the article. Thanks.

]]> By: Kit http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/antheabuys/2009/04/30/back-ache-cape-09-and-the-first-official-provisional-fynbos-museum-of-the-greater-khayelitsha-area/comment-page-1/#comment-80333 Kit Tue, 05 May 2009 10:21:34 +0000 http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/antheabuys/2009/04/30/back-ache-cape-09-and-the-first-official-provisional-fynbos-museum-of-the-greater-khayelitsha-area/#comment-80333 A petition for an ignore function for commentards? Please forward to me, I will happily sign away my mother in law, dog and assorted others who seem to while away time with randomness here. A petition for an ignore function for commentards? Please forward to me, I will happily sign away my mother in law, dog and assorted others who seem to while away time with randomness here.

]]> By: Lyndall Beddy http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/antheabuys/2009/04/30/back-ache-cape-09-and-the-first-official-provisional-fynbos-museum-of-the-greater-khayelitsha-area/comment-page-1/#comment-80284 Lyndall Beddy Mon, 04 May 2009 18:42:20 +0000 http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/antheabuys/2009/04/30/back-ache-cape-09-and-the-first-official-provisional-fynbos-museum-of-the-greater-khayelitsha-area/#comment-80284 Anthea Sorry! I just think that fynbos prefers compost. Anthea

Sorry! I just think that fynbos prefers compost.

]]> By: Robert Sloon http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/antheabuys/2009/04/30/back-ache-cape-09-and-the-first-official-provisional-fynbos-museum-of-the-greater-khayelitsha-area/comment-page-1/#comment-80250 Robert Sloon Mon, 04 May 2009 12:08:29 +0000 http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/antheabuys/2009/04/30/back-ache-cape-09-and-the-first-official-provisional-fynbos-museum-of-the-greater-khayelitsha-area/#comment-80250 I haven't had the chance to look yet, but people are saying it's the best part of the Lookout Hill show. I haven’t had the chance to look yet, but people are saying it’s the best part of the Lookout Hill show.

]]> By: Anthea Buys http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/antheabuys/2009/04/30/back-ache-cape-09-and-the-first-official-provisional-fynbos-museum-of-the-greater-khayelitsha-area/comment-page-1/#comment-80231 Anthea Buys Mon, 04 May 2009 08:59:28 +0000 http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/antheabuys/2009/04/30/back-ache-cape-09-and-the-first-official-provisional-fynbos-museum-of-the-greater-khayelitsha-area/#comment-80231 Where do you all come from? And why do you bother reading my blog? Lyndall: Of course I have a gardener on the project. Several in fact. What kind of dim wit do you take me for? My reference to manure was hyperbolic, metaphorical, a joke... you know? Anyway. Bar the title of this post, which was not my own, there is nothing self-righteous about this project, for those of you who couldn't make it to the opening. In fact, it is a very self-consciously ugly garden, most of which is likely to be turned into fences and walls and the like on Mew Way Road in a matter of days. Which is just how I wanted it. Where do you all come from? And why do you bother reading my blog?

Lyndall: Of course I have a gardener on the project. Several in fact. What kind of dim wit do you take me for? My reference to manure was hyperbolic, metaphorical, a joke… you know?

Anyway. Bar the title of this post, which was not my own, there is nothing self-righteous about this project, for those of you who couldn’t make it to the opening. In fact, it is a very self-consciously ugly garden, most of which is likely to be turned into fences and walls and the like on Mew Way Road in a matter of days. Which is just how I wanted it.

]]> By: Dave Harris http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/antheabuys/2009/04/30/back-ache-cape-09-and-the-first-official-provisional-fynbos-museum-of-the-greater-khayelitsha-area/comment-page-1/#comment-80168 Dave Harris Sat, 02 May 2009 17:26:07 +0000 http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/antheabuys/2009/04/30/back-ache-cape-09-and-the-first-official-provisional-fynbos-museum-of-the-greater-khayelitsha-area/#comment-80168 Prettying up the township seems like a nice gesture but please don't start kicking out Khayelitsha residents to expand for your fynbos garden - now that would be colonial ;-) Prettying up the township seems like a nice gesture but please don’t start kicking out Khayelitsha residents to expand for your fynbos garden – now that would be colonial ;-)

]]> By: Lyndall Beddy http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/antheabuys/2009/04/30/back-ache-cape-09-and-the-first-official-provisional-fynbos-museum-of-the-greater-khayelitsha-area/comment-page-1/#comment-80152 Lyndall Beddy Sat, 02 May 2009 09:35:16 +0000 http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/antheabuys/2009/04/30/back-ache-cape-09-and-the-first-official-provisional-fynbos-museum-of-the-greater-khayelitsha-area/#comment-80152 Anthea I hope you have some gardeners in this project. I thought manure is supposed to be too rich for fynbos. And what on earth has apartheid got to do with it? The Afrikaners may not have been sensitive to people - but they know everything about plants. Anthea

I hope you have some gardeners in this project. I thought manure is supposed to be too rich for fynbos.

And what on earth has apartheid got to do with it? The Afrikaners may not have been sensitive to people – but they know everything about plants.

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