We received numerous requests from residents asking what trees to plant on their property.

According to the Tree Policy, the following trees are well adopted to our area:

• Curtisia Dentata (assegai/assegaai)
• Cunonia Capensis (red alder/rooi els)
• Harpephyllum Caffrum (sour plum/suurpruim)
• Kiggelaria Africana (wild peach/wilde perske)
• Nuxia Floribunda (forest elder/bosvlier)
• Olea Europaea Subsp. Africana (wild olive/olienhout)
• Rhus Lancea (sweet karee/swartkaree)
• Rhus Pendulina (river karee/witkaree)
• Sideroxylon Inerme (milkwood/melkhout)
• Syzygium Guineense (water pear/waterpeer)
• Tarchonanthus Littoralis (coastal champhor bush/kus wildekanferbos)
• Trichelia Emetica (natal mahogany/rooi essenhout)

The Tree Policy can be viewed on the Municipality’s website – www.overstrand.gov.za  by clicking on Documents, then Policies.