Category: garden

• The Zen Garden

    Classified by insiders as “Brilliant in its Simplicity” is this little traditional Japanese Zen Garden in our village. This garden is not open for the public for the owners like to have ‘peace of mind’.

  Herman van Bon Photography

  June 1, 2012

  garden, Stanford, Uncategorized

  brilliant, garden, Japanese, peace of mind, public, simplicity, traditional, village, Zen

• Potjiekos

  One of the good old Dutch traditions Afrikaners took with them in the 17th century to South Africa is the ‘Potjie’. In the Netherlands this tradition got lost in history but the contemporary Dutch, like us, in South Africa love Potjiekos. Once you experienced the basics of how to make a ‘lekker’ potjie you start to…

  Herman van Bon Photography

  May 19, 2012

  flowers, food, garden, gardening, plants, South Africa, Stanford

  ash, charcoal, compost, Dutch, experience, experimenting, history, japanese tea ceremony, mix, Netherlands, potjie, potjiekos, recipe, social event, soil, tradition

• Developments in our garden

  Almost every day we add a picture of our garden to our ‘Green Cathedral of South Africa’ page on Facebook. We started this page a few years ago after the restoration and extension of the historical succulent garden of Soekershof. Today a year ago an Italian/German couple visited us there and made an offer to purchase.…

  Herman van Bon Photography

  May 18, 2012

  flower, flowers, garden, gardening, green cathedral of south africa, plants, South Africa, Stanford, Uncategorized

  collection, cuttings, developments, facebook, rare, seeds, soekershof, specimens, succulents

• Who doesn’t like Proteas in a Wedding Bouquet?

   Most Proteas in wedding bouquets and other feastly flower arrangements in Europe originate from the Stanford area.  

  Herman van Bon Photography

  May 17, 2012

  flower, flowers, garden, gardening, plants, South Africa, Stanford

  arrangement, bouquet, flower, protea, proteas, wedding

• The Pottery

  The recycling of old building ‘rubbish’ into a potting table has become quite a visual success. Not the table though but the results of Yvonne’s sudden potting mania. Numerous plants look far better in their new environment. See for yourself:

  Herman van Bon Photography

  May 16, 2012

  garden, gardening, plants, South Africa, Stanford

  cactus, pottery, potting table, succulent plants, succulents

• Still standing

  Last week Friday Herman ‘recycled’ old building material into a ‘potting table’ and during the weekend Yvonne potted numerous plants on this creation. This morning the table was still standing…..

  Herman van Bon Photography

  May 14, 2012

  garden, gardening, plants, Uncategorized

  building material, creation, potting table, recycled