Public Garden

Herschal Walk 1

Herschal Walk

An old garden belonging to a house undergoing a renovation, and similarly in need of an update. The revamp of the garden had much to do about connecting the house and garden – by means of an entrance garden, a pergola, and the introduction of beds against the house. Stone walls of the driveway were […]

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Silverhurst 3

Silverhurst

Four years in the making, this garden grew from a single to a double plot requiring some clever design solutions, and plenty of earth-shaping to create a unified landscape. Taking inspiration from the Georgian style architecture, this garden is divided into a series of ‘outdoor rooms’, my favourite of which is the forest-walk garden. In

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Fernwood 4

Fernwood

A once steeply sloping site overlooking False Bay and the Hottentots Holland Mountains has been transformed into a manicured, terraced garden that makes as much of the surrounding views as it does of the garden rooms within in. The result is a variety of outdoor living spaces from feature fairy garden to alfresco entertaining and

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Constantia Ave 5

Constantia Ave

In a large established garden with beautiful trees, the initial request was to create a water feature in a designated spot. The brief then developed to create a gateway into the garden. One is taken up from the werf level, through a pergola, into an intermediary platform. On this level, four reflective mirror pools were

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