Grow Proteas with Protea Seeds from South Africa
Everything you need to grow proteas: supplies and tips from the home of fynbos and protea.
Protea Shop
New Protea and Fynbos Starter Packs - everything you need to grow these unique plants
FREE Protea growing instructions included with every purchase of Protea Seeds from our seed shop We deliver world-wide and accept all currencies and means of payment.
- Protea Catalog
- Protea Books
- Protea, Erica & Bulb Starter Packs
- Easy-growing Protea Seeds
- Summer rainfall Protea Seeds
- Good Cut-Flower Protea Seeds
- Proteas that grow in Pots
- Leucadendron Seed Catalog
- Leucospermum Seed Catalog
- Seed-growing Accessories for Smoke Seed Primer to help germinate your protea seeds, special proteaceae fertilizer, and long-lasting aluminium tags to mark your bushes.
- Fine BushTea now available: top quality Honeybush and Rooibos teas
- Succulent plant seeds for those indoor and outdoor arrangements and rock gardens.
- Stunning watercolour protea pictures for your sitting room
If you want to deliver fresh flowers anywhere in South Africa, do it via NetFlorist here. It costs you the same and the affiliate fee allows us to fund the conservation of our fynbos.
Teach Yourself to Sing Nkosi Sikelel' Iafrika
This CD will teach you to sing the hauntingly beautiful Nkosi Sikelel' Iafrika anthem better than the Springbok Rugby players. This CD is only available through FineBushPeople by special permission of the publishers -
review or buy Teach Yourself to Sing Nkosi Sikelel' Iafrika online.
FineBushPeople recognized as Proudly South African
We have gotten our "Proudly South African" accreditation that allows us to display the logo shown here on our products and to confirm to you that as a company we:
- Use South African content in the production of our products,
- Ensure high quality of our products and service,
- Have fair labour standards, and
- Sound environmental practices.
We now also accept the following credit cards internationally:
Fynbos Index
All about the plants that make up the sixth (and richest) floral kingdom of the world.
- Follow our photo-essay showing how we grow proteas in an eggbox in our kitchen,
- grow proteas from seed,
- germinate protea seeds with Smoke Seed Primer,
- how to prune proteas,
- visit a fynbos reserve (virtually), or
- discuss the wonder of proteas and fynbos with other enthusiasts.
- the protea books we use.
- water-colour prints available. (The picture above is one.)
Our
Philosophy
This sounds awefully pretentious. Don't worry, we cannot tell you our philosophy - you need to find it for yourself. All we do here is share some travelling stories and point you to some books and CDs that have served as milestones or gateways.
Search the Site
Browse through our contents page or use the search engine below.This search engine will find all pages on our site with the words that you submit here. Just enter the words you are looking for in the white space below, and click on the "search" button.
Join our mailing list
...for irregular (and infrequent!) news from this site. (You can also unsubscribe from here)About Us
Julie Oertel
Pharmacist by profession, mother of two boys, animal and plant lover on a journey of discovery of self, life, the universe and everything. I run the farm shop and handle orders and queries. I also do the research on plants and fynbos in order to answer your questions. Welcome to our site - I hope you like it.
