Celebrated landscaper Leon Kluge will showcase his award-winning garden creation at Hazendal Wine Estate later this month, offering the public a rare look at the installation before heading off to the Chelsea Flower Show in London.
Launching on Earth Day, the extraordinary garden that earned South Africa top honours at the Singapore Garden Festival last year, will be open to the public from 22 April to 2 May.
Kluge is an internationally acclaimed landscape artist and botanist known for his bold and thought-provoking creations. Last year, Kluge won “Best Exhibit in the Pavilion” as well as the “Best New Design” award at the Chelsea Flower Show with perfect scores from the judges.
The installation called “Between Two Worlds” is described as “an immersive multi-sensory experience that transports visitors into an evocative state between wake and sleep through celebrating the beauty of the plant kingdom.
“Leon continues to push the boundaries of garden design, blending exceptional artistic vision and horticultural expertise to create spaces that inspire and educate people about botanics. We are proud to present the internationally-acclaimed masterpiece,” says a spokesperson at the estate.
His passion
For Kluge, landscape design has never been merely about arranging plants – it’s about storytelling, with nature taking center stage.
His passion is deeply rooted in his upbringing in the famed Lowveld National Botanical Garden in Nelspruit, where his father served as curator, and in the time he spent with his grandfather,
who curated the Betty’s Bay Botanical Garden.
Immersed in the rich biodiversity of South Africa’s most iconic gardens, Kluge developed not only a deep knowledge of horticulture but also an intuitive sense of the delicate harmony between plants and their environments.
The estate is also partnering with Leon Kluge to re-design the gardens across the historic property and create in the farm’s vineyards a new botanical garden dedicated to the renosterveld community of the Cape Floristic Region, a Unesco World Heritage Site.
Tickets at R170 per person are limited and available through Quicket.
