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Claremont Farm is a family-run nursery that specializes in indigenous plants - offering over 300 different species of indigenous plants. We offer advice and consultation on any of your gardening needs, delivery and planting services, and indigenous landscaping.

Our plants are all priced for our wholesale business, and we extend these prices to the public. We are in the process of building a tea garden at the nursery, and encourage people to spend time enjoying the butterfly and bird species that visit our nursery.

 

South Africa boasts the richest floral kingdom in the world, but sadly, our indigenous flora are disappearing at an alarming rate due to urban development and farming. By planting indigenous vegetation, you can reverse this trend, and also provide a habitat for birds and insects. Planting indigenous requires very little upkeep - and once established, provided they are planted in the right place, indigenous plants will generally never have to be watered again. Alien bird species such as Indian Mynas and Pigeons are not usually attracted to Indigenous Vegetation, and there is generally no reason to use insecticides on indigenous vegetation as insects will usually just encourage growth in these plants, as opposed to killing them. 

 

The following list of plants can all be grown near the sea, and on dunes with little or no work to keep them going. They will help to stabilize banks, provide protection from sea-winds, and some can be used as natural screens and ‘burglar guards’.

 

Contact us at Claremont, located on Sheffield Beach Road, just off Salt Rock Road in Sheffield Beach for more information, or call Kerry at 083-618-5596.

 

 

Acacia Karoo - Sweet Thorn (fast growing, attracts numerous butterfly species, popular bird nesting tree, suitable for bonsai, fragrant yellow flowers)

Accocanthera Oppositifolia - Common Poison-Bush

Allophylus Natalensis - Dune False Currant (attracts butterflies, attracts birds, fragrant flowers)

Aloe Thraskii - Dune Aloe (attracts nectar birds)

Aptenia Cordifolia - Aptenia (ground cover with bright pink flowers)

Barringtonia Racemosa - Powder-Puff Tree (attracts butterflies)

Bauhinia Tomentosa - Yellow Tree Bauhinia (attractive yellow flowers)

Bersama Lucens - Glossy White Ash

Brachylaena Discolor - Coast Silver Oak (good windbreak or hedging plant)

Canavalia Rosea - Beach Bean (creeper with attractive pink flowers)

Carissa Macrocarpa - Amatangulu (scented, fruit, attracts birds, suitable for bonsai, edible fruit, good hedging & screening plant (thorny))

Chrysanthemoides Monilifera - Bush-Tick Berry (attracts butterflies, attracts birds, good screening and hedging plant, edible berries)

Clerodendrum Glabrum - Cat’s Whiskers (scented, white flowers, attracts butterflies, attracts birds)

Cola Natalensis - Coshwood (attracts butterflies)

Cussonia Sphaerocephala - Natal Forest Cabbage Tree (fast growing)

Deinbolia Oblongifolia - Dune Soap-Berry (attracts butterflies, attracts birds, edible fruit)

Dodonea Augustifolia - Sand Olive (fast growing, good screening & hedging plant)

Dracaena Aletriformis - Large-leaved Dragon Tree (scented flowers, attracts butterflies, attracts birds)

Drypetes Natalensis - Natal Ironplum

Euclea Natalensis - Natal Guarri (scented, good shade tree, attracts birds)

Eugenia Capensis - Dune Myrtle

Ficus Burtt-davyi - Veld Fig (fast growing, attracts birds, suitable for bonsai, edible fruit)

Ficus Lutea - Giant-Leaved Fig (fast growing, good shade tree, attracts birds, edible fruit)

Hibiscus Tiliaceus - Lagoon Hibiscus (fast growing, good shade tree, attracts butterflies, organge/yellow/ red flowers,good screening plant)

Maytenus Procumbens - Dune Koko Tree

Microsorium Scolopendrium - Dune Fern

Mimusops Caffra - Coast Red Milkwood (attracts butterflies, attracts birds, edible fruit)

Mimusops Obovata - Red Milkwood (scented, good shade tree, attracts butterflies, attracts birds, edible fruit)

Pheonix Reclinata - Wild Date Palm (attracts butterflies, good bank retaining/restoration plant, popular bird nesting tree, good screening/hedging plant (thorny), edible fruit)

Plumbago Auriculata - Plumbago (attracts butterflies, attractive blue or white flowers, good screening plant)

Psychotria Capensis - Black Bird-Berry

Psydrax Obavata - Quar

Rhoicissus Digitata - Baboon Grape (creeper, attracts birds)

Sideroxylon Inerme - White Milkwood (good shade tree, attracts birds)

Strelitzia Nicolai - Natal Wild Banana (fast growing, attracts nectar birds, good screening plant)

Strelitzia Reginae - Crane Flower (attracts nectar birds, attractive orange & blue flowers, good screening plant)

Syzygium Cordatum - Water Berry (scented, good shade tree, attracts nectar birds, edible fruit)

Tecomaria Capensis - Cape Honeysuckle (suitable for bonsai, attractive orange or yellow flowers, good hedging plant)