Garden weekend
2007-09-27
THE Wellington Garden Club is once again hosting open gardens next month.
Five gardens are open to the public on Friday 12 October and Saturday 13 October between 10:00 and 16:30 daily. Four town gardens and one farm garden will be open.
Two of the town gardens will be open for the first time. One town garden and the farm garden were open only once before, six years ago.
The other town garden is open on a regular basis and was featured on Kyknet’s “Tuinpaleis”.
Entrance is R30 including all gardens (children under 12 free).
Tickets are available in advance from Basson Shoes at 26 Church Street (tel 021-864-1362).
On the open days, tickets will only be available at the Wellington Museum (no tickets are sold at open gardens). The Museum is at the bottom of Church Street on the left hand side, just beyond the Shell garage on the right.
There will be a tea garden at one of the open gardens, so come and enjoy a cup of tea, coffee or fruit juice while you relax in lovely country surroundings. There will also be a Farm Market selling fresh and home-made products, seedlings and plants.
Charities in Wellington will benefit from the profits.
For ticket enquiries, contact Heather Grewar 021-873 2001 or Marita Naudé 021-873-6107. For directions on open days phone Liekie Neethling 083-669-5768.
Gardens
* Visit the town garden of Evan & Kathi Hodkinson at 7 Wingfield Street, open to the public for the first time.
The garden has beautiful, large established trees and the house was built in 1925.
During the past two years the new owners have replanted and hard scaped the garden to a symmetrical formal old English style. They have created a colonnaded formal herb garden; a newly planted swimming pool area, a potager (vegetable garden) and miniature vineyard. They retained an expansive lawn with a park-like feel.
* Tim & Caroline Holdcroft’s farm garden at Kleinfontein, Bovlei, was once open to the public six years ago.
This scenic garden has a backdrop of paddocks, vineyards and mountains. The Holdcrofts moved here 12 years ago. After renovating the house, they started on their indigenous garden ten years ago. Today it is a beautiful organic, water wise and bird friendly garden.
* Kobus & Marita Naudé's town garden at 21 Montpellier Street was once open to the public six years ago.
This tropical garden right in the heart of the Boland is nine years old. In this oasis you will find more than 50 palms, 12 different species.
There are ten different species of air plants (Tilandsia) and 8 different species of cycads not to mention all the bromeliads in flower. Sit and relax under the shade of the palm trees with the sound of water, from the water features, in your ears.
* The town garden of Peter & Lizette Siderfin at 43 Burg Street was seen on TV.
This is a beautiful green oasis where every child, or the child in you, can imagine that you are in a secret garden, where doves, peacocks, ducks, tortoises, squirrels, rabbits, koi-fish and pets live in harmony.
As you enter angels greet you at a water feature. Underneath the Coprosma you will find a fairy tea garden and at the bottom of the garden, a garden of dreams.
* André & Carinda Smit’s garden at 38 Bain Street is now open to the public for the first time. André and Carinda started on their garden three years ago, after moving to Wellington.
The old existing garden was demolished and a formal garden created. Carinda grew the 300 Sheena’s Gold plants she needed for the formal hedges, herself. Her brother, landscape designer Beukes Goosen of Grün Art Design in Johannesburg, designed the garden.
Tea, coffee and fruit juice will be served in this garden. Come and enjoy a “cuppa” and relax in lovely country setting.
The Wellington Garden Club’s popular market will be selling home-made products like jams, biscuits, cakes, bread, seedlings, plants and many more at bargain prices.
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