Mogale’s team scoops gold
The theme garden titled Sustainable Living, highlights the new radical movement against poverty, social responsibility and making use of all that nature has to offer.
Mogale City’s Integrated Environmental Management Department (DIEM) employees not only collect refuse and prune trees.
They also have the expertise and skills to produce award-winning designer gardens.
This rare skill was showcased at the 21st Spring Festival ‘Nature’s Bounty’ held at the Garden World in Muldersdrift, where 17 garden designers, including the famous Kirstenbosch-South Africa Chelsea Exhibit, displayed their wealth of indigenous plants and flowers.
The team, better known as the Magnificent Six, comprising cemeteries and facilities specialist Leon van Zyl, senior horticulturist Lwandiso Ncobo and general workers Anele Ngcezu, Jongikhaya Mrawuzeli, Lungile Nqabeni and Jabu Rodo, showed class and intellect when they designed a garden that secured a gold award for the municipality.
The Magnificent Six competed against the best garden designers such as Praveer Soka, the Twilight Groove designer and David Davidson and Ray Hudson, the renowned designers of the Kirstenbosch-South Africa Chelsea exhibit at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Chelsea Flower Show in London.
The theme garden titled Sustainable Living, highlights the new radical movement against poverty, social responsibility and making use of all that nature has to offer. It also features solar heating and rainwater harvesting, two critical sources of sustainability nature regularly provides us with, which we do not take full advantage of.
Beaming from ear to ear, DIEM executive manager Morakane Mokoena said on behalf of the municipality, “Mogale City Local Municipality is delighted to be part of the Garden World Spring Festival, featuring designer gardens by top landscapers and students in the horticultural field.
“Mogale City’s Parks Section in previous years has participated in this prestigious event and managed to do the city proud with numerous awards. The City sees the partnership with Garden World as meaningful since it contributes to achieving the City’s objectives to regional growth in tourism and environmental awareness.”
The News would like to congratulate the Magnificent Six on a job well done!
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