The Tree Sprite

April 11th, 2024


Behind Babylonstoren #6: Oom Anton Roux



Sprite: from the Old French esprit, or “spirit”, and the Latin root spiritus. An ...

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Tips from the Pruning Pro

August 14th, 2015

August is the best time of the year to plant. So if you want to add a fruit tree to your garden, now's the time for apples, pears, quince and medlars, also stone-fruit (plums, peaches, nectarines) and berries.

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Graft your Own Tree

October 25th, 2013

Grafting is a technique whereby a shoot of a desired plant cultivar is inserted into another plant to join them together. Oom Anton, our full time ...

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Figuring out Figs

August 23rd, 2012

We have quite a variety of figs growing at Babylonstoren, which you can read about here, but we have some favourites that we’d like more ...

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