Get your own spekboom and grow hundreds of saplings to combat desertification (Piere JANSSENS / Willem VAN COTTHEM)

Read a Facebook message of Pierre JANSSENS (The Spekboom Group) :

2010-03-29 - Spekboom cuttings from South Africa, a present from Johan Van de Ven (Bamboo Sur)

“You may know that Spekboom is a brilliant plant for your garden, hardy, water-wise, great for making fabulous evergreen hedges while helping suck CO2 from the atmosphere.

A small group of adventurous folk are putting Spekboom to use in their guerilla gardening activities (http://www.guerrillagardening.org/)

………………”

The “spekboom” (Portulacaria afra) is indeed a wonderful drought-tolerant plant species.  It deserves full attention of all those involved in greening the drylands.  A succulent shrub or tree, also called “elephants bush”, it can grow in arid or semi-arid areas with a minimum of water.

No wonder that guerilla gardeners are using this plant.

Rooting Spekboom cuttings and rooting leaves in a plastic pastry box, used as a mini-greenhouse (Photo WVC)

See also former postings on the spekboom on this blog.