Available books

  • Blooming Quotes
  • Bonsai Success in South Africa
  • Down to Earth Garden Plants & Flowers
  • Flora A Gardener's Encyclopedia
  • Garden Almanac (Eng) / Tuin Almanak (Afr)
  • Gardening Solutions / Keith Kirsten gee raad
  • Gardening with Keith Kirsten (2nd Edition)
  • Handy Tips (2nd Edition)
  • Wenner Wenke
  • Small Gardens (Eng) / Kleine Tuine (Afr) (The latest book)


  • Handy Hints, Second edition

    First published as Blooming Tips in 2003
    Published by Struik
    ISBN: 9781770074521

    Anyone can be a successful gardener if they know what to do and when to do it. Handy Hints for SA plant lovers (previously known as Blooming Tips) is a practical guide packed with useful cost-cutting ideas and time-saving tips, many of the illustrated.

    Find out how to:
  • make cut flowers last longer;
  • sow and select garden plants;
  • prune roses;
  • outline a new garden bed;
  • mow wet grass;
  • eliminate pests and weeds and much, much more besides.


  • Essential reading for everyone who has ever wanted to get great results from their garden, without having to wade through tomes filled with technical and often irrelevant information.