Spekboom handles light frost, but a hard freeze can blacken a plant overnight — placement matters more than luck.
Spekboom in short
Spekboom handles light frost, but a hard freeze can blacken a plant overnight — placement matters more than luck.
How to get it right
- Established plants shrug off light frost; young plants and potted plants are far more vulnerable.
- Plant on the warm side of a wall or under tree canopy if your area gets heavy frost.
- Cover young plants with frost cloth on warning nights and water lightly the day before a cold snap.
Where most people slip up
- Watering heavily just before a frost — wet soil freezes harder.
- Assuming a sheltered nursery plant will handle an exposed corner in its first winter.
Living and growing plants in the Garden Route
AloeRoots grows and sells spekboom and aloes from Wilderness in the Garden Route. Every plant we send out is grown here, in this climate — the same wet winters and salty wind your garden has to live with.
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Tell us what you are planting — a hedge, a rockery, a pot on a stoep — and we will point you at the right plants and the right size.
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