Winter is on its way, with hopefully plenty of rain, and while that might mean that we spend less time out in our gardens, it’s still important to keep everything looking beautiful and tidy throughout the winter months. One of the easiest ways to do that is to utilise paving in hard landscaping designs – […]
Drought
Winter is on its way to us, and while that will hopefully bring lashings of much-needed rain to Cape Town, we all know that the ‘new normal’ of conserving water is here to stay. And while that impacts on us hugely in our homes, it also impacts on how we choose to go about setting
We all know how imperative it is to conserve water right now. With Cape Town experiencing its worst drought in over a century, we all need to work together to save this precious resource. And leading the way in paving is QPave, who have pioneered the first revolutionary form of Waterless Paving. Traditional paving requires huge
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The new year has begun and for most of us that elicits thoughts of new beginnings and fresh starts, both for ourselves and for our surroundings – there’s a reason why gyms and DIY stores are both overrun in January. If home improvements and paving are on your radar this month, then why not begin
Sadly the fine English garden is a thing of the past for most of us in Cape Town. With the current drought, we’re not able to sustain the beautiful, water-thirsty plants that used to ramble magnificently through our gardens. But that doesn’t mean we have to turn away from beauty. On the contrary, with careful
Paving featured as a strong trend in many of the gardens on show at Chelsea this year, but not the strict rectilinear designs we’ve come to expect in hard landscaping, but rather in diagonal and geometric shapes. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show, probably the most famous flower and landscape gardens show in the world, was first