Giant Love Adopt a tree

There are trees in Ferncliffe older than anyone alive in South Africa today. Help them survive another lifetime.

You’ll receive a paper or digital certificate, plus annual updates on how your individual tree is doing for three years (and – if we’re both lucky – the creatures seen near it, or in its branches). We’ll also monitor it and ensure it isn’t swamped or strangled by aliens. If you want to keep following your tree’s progress after the three-year reporting period, you’ll have first option to readopt.

Artist’s prints are available for an extra donation.

PS: Are you based outside South Africa? The debit card and EFT options here don’t support international cards – a credit card should work best. Alternatively, you can mail us the details of your order and make a direct payment into our bank account (see the contact page).

Cape Fig #1

Ficus sur

A tree that feeds all sorts of game, and right now anchors soil in a pretty little ravine with a stream that flows after rain.

Forest Bushwillow #1

Combretum kraussii

Swamped by bamboo and with no indigenous neighbours in sight, this elderly tree with its impressive girth could provide new saplings with shelter.

Forest Cabbage Tree #1

Cussonia sphaerocephala

Invasive creepers shroud this impressive Forest Cabbage, an iconic Ferncliffe species. How much longer can it survive without help?

Natal Fig #1

Ficus natalensis

A fine specimen with considerable heft and characteristic aerial roots, growing in a special indigenous forest corridor with a number of other mature trees.

Adopted

Quinine #1

Rauvolfia caffra

A lone green cloud of quinine leaves floats just above endless bamboo stems. This tree deserves better neighbours!

Adopted

White Stinkwood #1

Celtis africana

These are such beautiful trees, what with their lichen-dabbed pale trunks and mass of emerald-green new leaves in spring. This one is already a 20m-tall survivor.