Gardening guru Tanya attracts the green-fingered

Best known as the presenter of the Home Channel’s popular tv show, The Gardener, Tanya Visser still considers herself a regular gardener by profession who has taken on additional ‘day jobs’ to do what she loves best.

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Tanya’s passion for gardening rooted itself at a young age under the guidance of her parents. She started by helping her dad in the family veggie patch, and to this day she loves growing vegetables for the kitchen and also has an impressive collection of succulents and grasses.

According to the gardening guru, “Many of my earliest memories are of gardening with my mom and dad: picking tomatoes, digging up the rich earth to harvest our homegrown peanuts, cutting anthurium blooms for the vase and watching as they cared for their potted orchids. Gardening is my passion, my life and everything that I am; in fact, I’m pretty sure my blood is green,” she said.

Recently, Tanya spoke to a packed crowd at a gardening masterclass hosted by Builders Southcoast Mall.

Her interesting ‘tea and talk’ at Builders gave guests tips on cost-saving gardening, water-saving and recycling and must-have products and plants to achieve the perfect spring garden which is approaching soon.

She certainly kept the audience entertained for most of the morning with her sense of humour on what and what not to do in the garden.

Nico Van Rensburg the manager of Builders Southcoast Mall said the turn out from South Coasters was excellent. “This was her third visit and the information given by Tanya was very informative and enjoyed by all. By public demand we were asked to bring her back again next year,” he said.

Gift bags, garden pots and plants were handed out to members of the audience and two lucky visitors won water tanks.

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