Garden and Home South Africa - October 2015

jo’burg rose garden
Who lives here
Vivienne and Fred Black, their daughter Monique,
and dogs Boss, Missy, Basil and Max.
The garden
A terraced garden in Beaulieu, north of Jo’burg, filled with roses and interesting features.
A
few years ago, just after
Vivienne Black’s garden was
photographed for Garden and
Home, it was flattened by a
devastating hailstorm. When we heard
that she’d not only repaired the damage
caused by the storm but had also made
huge improvements to the garden, we
leapt at the chance to visit it again.
Passionate gardeners never stop altering,
tweaking and of course adding new plants
and even the threat of hailstorms and
severe frost, hasn’t stopped Vivienne from
carrying on as usual. Fortunately she
established a good structure right at the
beginning. When the garden was first laid
out, she built terraces and raised beds to
make the sloping terrain more accessible
and easier to garden. Over the years she’s
supplemented the old jacarandas, which
are now off the invasive list, and blue
gums with new indigenous trees and
enlarged the beds around them.
Recently she’s planted masses of lowgrowing
Colourscape roses, more climbing
roses, which now clamber over
THIS SPREAD, CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Standard ‘Icebergs’ along the driveway are
interplanted with pretty pink soapwort, gaura, delphiniums and different varieties of sage.
Reminiscent of an English country garden, tall foxgloves stand out above darker pink
hybrid tea ‘Duet’ roses among evening primrose, pink primroses, forget-me-nots and the odd
spinach plant. Terracotta pots with a mix of petunias, lobelia and ageratum add interest to
the raised beds. Colourscape roses cascade over the edge.
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