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TREND 23 ENDEMIC GARDENING

Just around the corner from the towering skyscrapers of the Sandton CBD lies one of Johannesburg’s most remarkable private gardens – an almost 11ha expanse of indigenous grasslands, wetlands, forests and formal gardens that is currently undergoing a dramatic, environmentally sensitive redesign.

The sprawling estate is called Isibindi, which means both ‘courage’ and ‘seed’ in isiZulu, and has been owned by the same family for nearly as long as Johannesburg has been in existence. And now the

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