Route
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Grabouw & environs
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The Stone Kitchen
E22
Essenhout Ave, Klipkop
Jane Touwen
Organic garden on rocky koppie with pergolas, indigenous
plantings, olive trees; organic permaculture kitchen
garden, cob building. Entry R10. Food by arrangement
only. Charity: Humane Education Trust, Village of Hope.
From Grabouw Main Rd, turn up opposite FNB; left at
T-junction into Bosbou/Forest Drive, 1st right into
Karee through stone pillars, 1st right into Celtis &
1st left into Essenhout.
Ph: 021 8592282 / 084 781 1936
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Uitkyk
Applegarth
Farm, off Worcester St, Grabouw
Therine
van As
Large, shady, 40-year-old garden created by the present
owner, with a recently made sunnier area for growing
roses. Free entry. Tea & plant sales (Sats. only).
Follow Worcester St as for the Elgin Grabouw Country
Club; the Applegarth boom is just across the railway
line.
Ph: 021 8592002 / 072 4403337
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Fresh
Woods
off
N2
Peter & Barbara Knox-Shaw
Rambling, romantic plantsman's garden with major collection
of heritage & species roses; many rare trees &
shrubs, some wild-collected, incl. maples, rhododendrons
(esp.maddenias), serrata and wild hydrangeas & deutzias;
also collections of cyclamen, epimediums & lilies;maturing
woodland garden under pine. Bamboo walk. World Federation
of Rose Societies Award of Merit; featured in House
& Leisure; Conde Naste, Garden &
Home, etc. Entry R20, children 2-12 half-price.
Teas, unusual plants for sale. 2nd right turn off
the N2 after Peregrine Farmstall.
Ph: 021 8440154/ 078 0212101
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