Properly used, spekboom is a working groundcover: it shades its own roots, holds soil and suppresses weeds.
Spekboom in short
Properly used, spekboom is a working groundcover: it shades its own roots, holds soil and suppresses weeds.
How to get it right
- Plant dense on bare, sunny slopes to stop rain washing soil away.
- Let low-growing forms sprawl rather than staking them up — that spread is the cover you want.
- Sweep fallen leaves around the plant; they break down into a light mulch that keeps moisture in.
Where most people slip up
- Leaving bare soil between new plants, which grows weeds and dries out fast.
- Tidying away all leaf litter in a dry garden that needs every bit of organic cover.
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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