It's great to visit a project designed using local plants and finding just how well it survived the severe drought we've been experiencing in Cape Town over the last few years!

Bloemhof Electricity Headquarters was constructed in winter 2013 and had established over 3 summer seasons before the water was turned off in November 2016 with the onset of Stage 3B water rationing, no irrigation! This is the ultimate test of a planting scheme's success.

We visited site in late March 2017 after 5 months...
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Cape Town and the SW Cape has been experiencing a severe drought in the last few years. Now, in late February 2017, the city's reservoirs have only 4 months water supply left! And the hot, dry and windy weather is continuing, especially down in the Peninsula where gardening in this extreme weather with water rationing is highly challenging.

Nevertheless, life goes on and so does development. A current project under construction in Bellville, a landscape we are collaborating on with Earthworks ...
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