Spekboom (Portulacaria afra) for guerilla gardening and combating desertification (P. JANSSENS)

This is a plant species with multiple uses : food, fodder, fencing, gardening, bonsai, you name it …

A PLANT FOR ALL THE DRYLANDS … GO FOR IT !

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Pierre Janssens

November 12

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/): we would love to share more about this with the broader public. If you are involved, please post some notes on the Spekboom group’s wall, or message me!

Regards,

Pierre & the Spekboom Team

 

Author: Willem Van Cotthem

Honorary Professor of Botany, University of Ghent (Belgium). Scientific Consultant for Desertification and Sustainable Development.

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