Designers find ‘A Sense of Place’ at garden festival
Each garden this year tells a story, and reflects a lifestyle which speaks to how people feel about and experience garden spaces.
A ‘Sense of Place’ is the theme for this year’s Spring Festival at Garden World. The Festival kicked off on Friday, 27 July.
The challenge to landscapers creating the 17 show gardens was to design gardens with mood, atmosphere and personal style.
Participating landscapers include last year’s People’s Choice winner, Lizette Nieman of Strylitzia Landscapes, other gold medal winners and new landscapers. The popular children’s gardens will be featured, as well as display gardens by Rand Water and the SA National Botanical Gardens.
This year’s theme, ‘A Sense of Place’, is all about capturing what makes a space unique – it’s the mood, the sense of identity, the stirring of emotion and imagination to capture what makes an outdoor space special.
Each garden this year tells a story, and reflects a lifestyle which speaks to how people feel about and experience garden spaces.
Garden trends for 2018 indicate a keen interest in succulents and other plants that are tolerant of dry conditions, indigenous gardening, and healthy living/ edible gardening – all of which will be featured this year.
A first this year will be Garden World’s very own ‘A World In One Country’ garden. The exhibit will feature settings of flora from the Table Mountain National Park in the Western Cape, Coffee Bay on the Wild Coast of the Eastern Cape, the Arderne Gardens with their shady glades, romantic nooks and ponds in Claremont in the Western Cape, and a farm scene from Namaqualand in the Northern Cape.
The programme of workshops and talks includes a herb High Tea and talk by Sandy Roberts, from the Margaret Roberts Herbal Centre, make-overs with Hannon Bothma, the Glam Guru, and a music morning, ‘In Tune with Nature’.
Garden World is on Beyers Naudé Drive in Muldersdrift. For information on the Spring Festival and booking for the talks, workshops and music, contact Garden World on 011 957 2545 or 011 956 3003.
The festival runs until 2 September. For more information on the festival visit https://www.gardenworld.co.za.
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