Feb 2019
Aloe Ridge
Aloe Ridge a 6700 square meter beautiful indigenous garden is set in the Northriding Agricultural Holdings Valley just below the Northgate Dome. There are over 300 planted South African indigenous tree species growing amongst the original Ancient African Olives, Mountain Karee, Bushman’s Poison, Common Hook Thorn, Red leaf Rock Fig and Rock Elder clusters located in the area. There are roughly 600 aloes dispersed throughout the garden in sandstone rockeries along with shrubs, bulbs and indigenous grasses. Under the shade of the trees are dense patches…
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CHOC House
As CHOC is celebrating its 40 th birthday this year we are delighted that we have the opportunity to open the garden for you to enjoy. The garden provides a peaceful and healing retreat for the families of children fighting cancer and is maintained with love by the “Garden Fairies” from the Country Garden Club. It shows off a wide diversity of plants and huge trees provide a welcome shade in the play area so the children can play happily. A magnificent vegetable garden provides fresh…
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Heritage Garden
In November 2013, the owners started rejuvenating this Old World Garden as they wanted to bring it back to its former glory. The approach was to create light by pruning the old trees enough to create filtered sun as many of the beds were in deep shade. Once that had been achieved the beds needed trenching and feeding with tonnes of compost and organic fertilizer. Here is a mix of Roses, Buddleja Buzz, Penstemmons, mixed Salvia and cascading Convolvulus interspersed…
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