Cosmafolia

24/01/2026

Back where it all began. 🌿🌹

This photo was taken on my childhood farm, Ludwig’s Roses, during our annual visit to my father, Ludwig Taschner — the man who taught me that the real magic is equal parts patience, grit, and wonder.

Photo by: Nadine Thenussin

As I look into the year ahead, I’m choosing a simple promise: plant what matters, tend it daily, and trust the season.
More soil under my nails. More early mornings. More brave decisions. More beauty grown on purpose.

And most of all: more women farming.
Women with vision. Women with families. Women with calloused hands and soft hearts. Women building independence row by row — feeding communities, restoring land, and proving (again) that abundance is something we can cultivate.

Here’s to a year of:
🌱 learning + unlearning
🌸 growing crops and confidence
🌍 regenerative choices that ripple outward
🤝 sisterhood in the fields
✨ and harvests we can be proud of

Let’s make this one a grounded, generous, wildly alive year.

SoilToSoul Cosmafolia AfricaFarming YearAhead NewSeasonNewRoots 🌹

01/11/2025

Heart overflowing. Standing beside my sister at her solo exhibition at La Motte and watching a lifetime of devotion and craft come into full bloom. From our rose-farm roots at to the many large commissions she’s created for my landscape clients, her work carries the scent of home and an impeccable eye for detail.

We may have flown the nest, but everything we do is still grounded in the goodness and lessons our father sowed—patience, discipline, and respect for beauty. Gratitude to our brother who continues to grow great roses.

To our mother—our steady pillar—thank you for unwavering support through every season. We celebrate art, family, and the heritage that keeps us rooted. 🌹✨

If you’re nearby, come experience the exhibition at .



Photo by .niemand

27/10/2025

Wild Flower Workshops with Anja Taschner 🌼 — at La Motte Estate part of Garden Town Stellenbosch and ROSE’D Exhibition by Heike Taschner-Jeske

Celebrate the beauty of organically grown roses and flowers in an uplifting, interactive experience that invites you to pause, play and create with the natural world. Surrounded by the serenity of La Motte’s gardens, Anja will guide you in crafting your own artful bouquet or table arrangement using organically grown roses and locally gathered botanical treasures.
This is more than a floral demo — it’s a ritual of connection and creativity. We’ll make wild-flower posies & crowns (foam-free) and you’ll take your creations home.

Dates: 6 or 7 November (choose your session)
Time: 9h30 - 12h30
Price: R950 per person
Included in your ticket: All flowers, attendance at the event, a welcoming coffee or herbal garden tea, and a floral-inspired pastry. Tools will be provided.
Bookings: Via the Garden Town Stellenbosch website or La Motte (link in bio).
Questions / group bookings: [email protected] | 021 876 8850

Limited spots — book now and come play with flowers! 🌿✨

26/10/2025

Growing Beauty Without Pesticides 🌿🌹 — Live at La Motte
I’m sharing how to grow exquisite roses and botanicals the natural way—no pesticides—plus simple, proven practices for soil health & beneficial insects.

Where: La Motte Estate — as part of the ROSE’D exhibition by Heike Taschner Jeske, within Garden Town Stellenbosch.

Events:
• Talk: Growing Beauty Without Pesticides — 1 November
• Floral Workshops — 5 & 6 November (hands-on, foam-free, garden-to-vase design with seasonal roses)

Bookings: via the Garden Town Stellenbosch website or La Motte.
Questions / group bookings: [email protected] | 021 876 8850

Seats are limited—save the dates and bring a friend who loves roses! ✨

21/10/2025

21/10/2025

🌱 Organic Gardening & Farming Talk
Sat, 1 November — My practical, heart-led approach to organic growing: soil health, companion planting, pest management the natural way, and how to design a resilient, beautiful food-and-flower garden.

🌸 Floral Workshops
Wed–Thu, 5–6 November — Create dreamy, garden-fresh arrangements with roses, fynbos and herbs. We’ll play with scent, colour, texture, and natural mechanics (no foam!).

Bookings: via the La Motte website (link in bio / search “La Motte Franschhoek”).
Spots are limited — would love to see you there!

Heike Taschner Jeske Artist

13/10/2025

Hello Flower Friends, it's been ages!

I've thoroughly enjoyed my time off social media :) We've been hard at work growing our gardens and developing our women's farming collective.
This spring, we're teaming up with for their 'Rose'd' exhibition at La Motte. Take part in our workshop on creating wildflower posies or crowns, or join my discussion on gardening without pesticides.

6 & 7 November 9h30 - 12h30
Link in comments to tickets on La Motte’s website.

09/02/2025

Seldomly do I post of my family, but this was sooo good, so back to basics, and reminding me of the early days of our family farm setting up the rose show, I just have to share!

Through by .preped we buy organic apple & pear juice, fruit and some dairy from this family run organic farm in Bo-Piket-Berg
Visiting their annual Harvest Festival was worth the drive up the mountain to breath super fresh air, eat delicious pear pie, pick apples and play with chicks 🐥

As an organic farmer 👩‍🌾 a big shout out to them and encouragement to you to stick up on their produce. It doesn’t get cleaner than that.

06/01/2025

The greatest gift is precious moments shared.

I love walking and talking plants, of course, the corner of our hearts - ROSES - with my father and mentor

Here we were looking at novel cultivars from all over the world. One in particular stole my heart and senses. A fluffy, cloudy, fragrant white one bred by my French Family, Orard, where my hybridization training began many many years ago.

Also Yellow Iceberg and Fragrant Iceberg and other deliciousnesses nature wants to share with us 🍦🍭💚

May this year be full of interesting and inspiring fragrances, shapes and colours. Open for all of it.

31/12/2024

Ending this year at a most beautiful mango farm in Tzaneen.
It has been a very fulfilling year for me and as a business for COSMAFOLIA.
Years of testing and trialing our work in healing soils with little compromise on crop production is paying off, as we implement systems of naturalistic farming, using some permaculture and some bio-dynamics techniques.

Our flowers have rerooted beautifully at their new home in Banhoek, and are producing lovely fragrant roses, dahlias and lisianthus, amongst others.

We’ve loved our landscaping projects this year and grateful for clients…

All he whilst focusing on growing and eating healthy food, focusing on our own healing.

Avanti 2025

26/09/2024

Planting gardens at one of my favorite farms today

01/09/2024

We built the monster, we feed the monster, we cover our earth in concrete and plastic.
Yet Mother Nature forgives us yet, tries to awaken us with her prettiest dress.

The West Coast Flower Queendom is riveting after the torrential rains.