BETWEEN THE
ountains AND THE ocean
By Marié Esterhuyse • Photographs Kosie Jansen van Rensburg
Larisa Brody’s garden on the slopes of the Helderberg is filled with glorious mass plantings and her favourite feature – eye-catching hedges.
WHO LIVES HERE? Larisa and Hubert Brody, their teenage children Rebecca and Alex, and Sputnik the Schnauzer WHERE Somerset West SIZE OF GARDEN 1ha TYPE OF SOIL Clay
90 home April 2020
A pathway down the centre of a large olive grove takes on an ochre hue at sunset. Fleabane covers the berms where nearly 100 olive trees grow and mass plantings of, among others, gaura, spur flowers, rosemary, wild garlic and ornamental grasses such as Pennisetum orientale ‘Shogun’ and pink muhly grass (Muhlenbergia capillaris) are planted in-between the rows.
