Meandering palettes

IN BRIEF

What: Private garden

Where: Westcliff, Johannesburg

Size: 3 acres (1.2ha)

Climate: Warm summers, cold winters

Designers: Liz and Tim Steyn

Vistas of tranquillity

The soft colour of Westcliff rock makes its presence felt throughout the garden, culminating in a cliffedged koppie that creates the context for graceful ornamental grasses, sculptural aloes and pockets of succulents.

Blending the past and the present, dreamy greenness with sun-baked reality, has been a work of artistry, stonemasonry and hard labour by mother and son