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The name of the company and how it incubuses how I view a garden to unfold itself and it potential seemed fitting. As the first part of the word "blom-" meaning flower, symbolizes the soft, feminine, colorful and divine part of a plant and of gardens, combined with the second part of the word "-bos", meaning bush, referring to the more rough, wild, natural and untamed part of plants and how these two elements can make a synergistic feel to a complete garden. My perspective of how to run this Blombos landscaping is by making use of only exceptional quality plants and materials needed to make a garden looking like the plants just naturally sprouted grew in the garden. That the long-term results of how the garden was planned out and execute will become its own advertisement as to why to make use of Blomboslandscaping. Blombos is the common Afrikaans name for the Metalasia muricata plant. The direct translation is flowerbush. Metalasia comes from the Greek words "meta" meaning backwords and reversed as seen on the leaves composition, and "lasios" meaning woolly, also referring to the leaves underside that is covered in fine silky hairs, giving the leaves beautiful contrasting colours. The word "muricata" comes from the word murex, meaning roughened and with sharp points. The blombos plant is very abundant in the costal areas of the Cape, forming a cornerstone of this area's floral biome. It is also found in other areas of the Western Cape and is spread out over certain areas of South Africa. Blombos flowers in winter, turning the green shrub almost completely white with its honey scented flowers, although it can also be found in pink and purple..... (Website in progress)