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    Meandering palettes

    Mar 23, 2020 3 minutes

    IN BRIEF

    What: Private garden

    Where: Westcliff, Johannesburg

    Size: 3 acres (1.2ha)

    Climate: Warm summers, cold winters

    Designers: Liz and Tim Steyn

    Vistas of tranquillity

    The soft colour of Westcliff rock makes its presence felt throughout the garden, culminating in a cliffedged koppie that creates the context for graceful ornamental grasses, sculptural aloes and pockets of succulents.

    Blending the past and the present, dreamy greenness with sun-baked reality, has been a work of artistry, stonemasonry and hard labour by mother and son

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