Article By: Joan Tinker
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Aberdeen Garden Club October Meeting In Graaff-Reinet
On the 1st of October, the Aberdeen Garden Club was fortunate to collectively view two beautiful gardens in Graaff-Reinet. The first garden viewed was the immaculately kept garden belonging to Morne and Izieen van Jaarsveld. Two wonderful features of this garden were the enormous tree at one end under which an intimate garden party could be held, and an enormous obviously very old, but healthy and happy lemon tree, on which lemons appeared to be the size of a small melon. The lawn surrounding this well kept garden was as smooth and as green as a finely kept bowling green.
Brenda Pringle, the gracious hostess of ‘Thyme and Again’, kindly hosted the morning tea for the Club in her home. Her restful garden was dominated by the melodious sounds from a water feature which had different varieties of pink and mauve flowering plants bordering the pond.