Pastel Pot

03/05/2024

Pastel Pot 🪴

25/06/2022

aesthetic details of Kalahari plants...Like this deep fissured texture of camel thorn bark.

16/06/2022

For a colorful floral flat lay or background picture you have here some yellow Grewia flowers, some golden grass and flowers of the blue bush. A bright white background and good natural lighting, and we have one lovely picture!

13/06/2022

A few of our wild flowers are still in bloom. Grasses are gold and camphor bushes still green. The Blue Bush is silver as usual. So we picked a few and here is a bouquet of the delightful and unassuming 💐

21/03/2022

pretty. The Kalahari String of Stars 🌟
Heliotropium ciliatum

(🔉sound on for ambiance)

16/03/2022

26/11/2021

Found in Ghanzi District, near the small village of Bere, November 2021.

26/11/2021

Found in Ghanzi District, north of Kagcae. November 2021 🌿

29/04/2021

Did you know?
Cotton stainers are pest of potential economic importance.

Two species of this bug are listed as "quarantine pests" under the Plant Protection Act of 2009. The two species are Dysdercus koenigii and Dysdercus sidae.

A Quarantine Pest means a pest of potential economic importance to an area it is in, not yet present there, or present but not widely distributed and being officially controlled.

If a pest listed as a Quarantine Pest is present at any premises the Minister can order that those premises be under quarantine, while the pest is investigated and cleared out.

27/04/2021

Here is a typical Butter Daisy with what looks like a typical Weevil Wasp on it.

Weevil Wasps are members of the genus Cerceris. They are hunters and gatherers of weevils and other beetles.solitary hunters that prey on Weevils, using them as a food source for their own offspring.

See more on
https://www.insectidentification.org/

15/02/2021

O kaa ja podile?

Yee nkgang? 😂😅 Yaa jewa ke seshabo ke snack jaaka phane! 😄

In Zimbabwe and some northern provinces of South Africa, people harvest and eat the little insect commonly called Podile or Green Stink Bug, scientific name Encosternum delegorguei.

This bug, like other edible insects, could help improve nutritional security and earn income for rural communities.

One of the plants that the bug feeds on is the one we commonly call the Hedge...or hop bush, scietific name Dodonaea viscosa. It likes to lay its eggs on the twigs of the Motswere tree, or leadwood, scientific name Combretum imberbe.

15/02/2021

In Zimbabwe and some northern provinces of South Africa, people harvest and eat the little insect commonly called Podile or Green Stink Bug, scientific name Encosternum delegorguei.

This bug, like other edible insects, could help improve nutritional security and earn income for rural communities.

One of the plants that the bug feeds on is the one we commonly call the Hedge...or hop bush, scietific name Dodonaea viscosa. It likes to lay its eggs on the twigs of the Motswere tree, or leadwood, scientific name Combretum imberbe.

12/02/2021

The Minister of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism Hon. Philda Nani Kereng outlined the position of the Ministry with regard to the Sengaparile plant in parliament recently.

She explained that her Ministry is gathering knowledge on how we currently harvest Sengaparile, packaging, marketing, how we sell it and how we can improve through partnerships with Botswana University of Agriculture & Natural Resources, Thusano Lefatsheng and the University of Botswana and Department of National Agricultural Research and Development Institute (NARDI).

In addition, the ministry is also drafting two Bills; Access and Benefit Sharing Bill and the Forestry and Range Resources Bill towards the development of a strategic framework for creation of a local Value Chain for Sengaparile.

09/02/2021

this little w**d you have seen all around town, everywhere. But there is so much research being published about its pharmacological properties and applications in medicine.

It's a w**dy alien with useful properties. Here is a link to a gallery on iNaturalist that will help you recognize other alien species around Gaborone City 🌿🌱🌿🌱

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/alien-plants-of-the-gaborone-area-of-botswana?tab=observations

09/02/2021

Japanese poinsetta - a naturalized w**d in Botswana and other tropical climate parts of the world, but a native of tropical North America. This plant has some uses in traditional medicine.

this was found in Phakalane Gaborone, February 2021

08/02/2021

This is a fungus. It is not a plant 😄

Jaanong ka Setswana gone a re ntse rare ke semela? Re di harologanya jang?

Mushrooms are fungi. They belong in a kingdom of their own, separate from plants and animals. Fungi differ from plants and animals in the way they obtain their nutrients.

Generally, plants make their food using the sun's energy (photosynthesis), while animals eat, then internally digest, their food. Fungi do neither: their mycelium grows into or around the food source, secretes enzymes that digest the food externally, and the mycelium then absorbs the digested nutrients. https://www.for.gov.bc.ca/

08/02/2021

Maybe you have seen this plant in gardens, roadsides, disturbed places, wastelands and pastures. In South Africa it was at one time reported as one of the top invasive species in the Kruger National Park.

You can read an informative little piece about alien invasive species in Botswana published by the Sunday Standard. Here is the link 🌱🌿🌱🌱

https://www.sundaystandard.info/aliens-in-botswana/

28/01/2021

Cissus quadrangulis
Mabofe
Veld grape / Cactus vine

This is one of the food plants of the Silver-striped hawk moth. And, it is a plant with recognised medicicinal use. Many scientific research studies continue to be carried out and published about it.

28/01/2021

The Silver-striped hawk moth.
Latin name Hippotion celero

🦋

It flew into our office building in Phakalane Gaborone 28 Jan 2021.

27/01/2021

In a bid to join hands with Global Landscapes Forum and others doing the good work of restoring our ecosystems.

27/01/2021

Sickle bush
Moselesele / Mpangale
Dichrostachys cinerea

Phakalane 2020

25/01/2021

Have you heard about SC Gardens Botswana?
They have been publishing a Quarterly Magazine on plants and gardens since May 2019.

They are a great link for all your plants and gardening related needs. https://gardensbotswana.wordpress.com/

25/01/2021

Holuba saccata
Sac flower
Makgabe-a-Thutlwa

Found in Bokaa

22/01/2021

The real Keto Snacks 😋
When my December harvest finishes ke taabo ke e latela ko True AfriBites😄

Check out healthy snack varieties of an African origin on their page.

21/01/2021

Did you know that Nubian Seed have used Moretologa Oil (Ximenia Oil) to produce a Beard Oil?

Check it out on their page

https://www.facebook.com/NubianSeed/photos/a.343884272399189/3422577577863161/?type=3&app=fbl

06/11/2020

Hibiscus trionum
Black-eyed Susan / Flower-of-an-hour
Delele-kwakwa
06 November 2020
Phakalane, Gaborone Botswana

06/11/2020

Do you also notice the connections between us, and plants and animals?
Yeah. Incredible isn't it?

02/11/2020

Sida ovota
October 2020
Phakalane Gaborone

02/11/2020

Hibiscus micranthus
Tiny white wild hibiscus/ Tiny flower hibiscus
Mmabasete / Mosadimooka
October 2020
Phakalane Gaborone

02/11/2020

Indigofera holubii
Creeping indigo
Mohetola
October 2020
Phakalane Gaborone