The country’s Cape Floral Kingdom has incredible bloom diversity with around 9,000 species – and some make spectacular plants for our British gardens

Scrambling over supports and into trees, these plants are a true delight of the season, says Sue Fisher

REAL readers' gardens! Pruning roses A plant-packed suburban ...

REAL readers' gardens!

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Purple punctuates the planting: here an acer, verbena and some pinky-purple crinum, or swamp lily, stand out