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My brother is getting married in January in Clarens and would like to use the King Protea as their wedding flower. However, we get conflicting answers on whether these flowers are available during January. Can you confirm? Well, you’re in luck because January is the perfect month for Proteas! All the varieties will be available including the amazing King Protea and the White Protea. If we can add a tip to this: it is always a good idea to mix your Protea with delicate flowers like antique roses, it just softens the look a bit. Also a brilliant idea is to place your proteas upside down in the vase, submerged...

There’s a lot to be said for hiking. It’s a good way to exercise whilst saving you from the exotic body odours and dubious cleanliness of gym changing rooms. It forces you from out behind the latest Youtube video of a cat falling off a TV and into the great outdoors where our ancestors once roamed freely without the help of GPS. And roam they did, particularly in Southern Africa where being a nomadic tribesman was the “in” thing for thousands of years. Maybe, as a South African, I’ve never…