Garden Designs

For something with a rugged, semi-arid character — iconic thorn trees, open-canopy shrubs and waving grasses — a bushveld-inspired garden delivers a bold, informal, wildlife-friendly look. It's worth being clear up front that this is an inspired style rat

If fynbos is fine and silvery and renosterveld is grassy and bulb-rich, thicket is the green, generous one of the family. It's dense, evergreen and semi-succulent — a comfortable tangle of woody shrubs, aloes and small trees that thrives in the sheltered,

Renosterveld is the understated cousin of the showier fynbos — and once you learn to read it, it's every bit as captivating. Where fynbos thrives on the poor, sandy, acidic soils of our slopes, renosterveld grows on the richer clay and shale soils of the

There's a particular kind of beauty in a garden that looks as though it has always been there. At Outeniquasbosch Wildlife Village, the most successful gardens aren't the ones that impose order on the landscape — they're the ones that borrow fro