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Estate News

BOTANICAL MOSAICS FOR

VERGELEGEN GARDENS

One of the Western Cape’s best-loved garden collections at Vergelegen Wine

Estate in Somerset West is being further enhanced with detailed mosaic art
works which reflect the botanical bounty of their surroundings.

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omerset West mosaic artist Romé Zurnamer has completed
two works inspired by the colourful birds, plants, butterflies
Sand insects that abound on the 323-year-old estate. She
has now started a third Vergelegen art work, with a fourth mosaic
also in the pipeline.
Romé created her first mosaic for Vergelegen in 2020, to
complement a long, narrow water trough in the Sundial Garden
near Stables Restaurant and the Wine Tasting Centre. This area was
being replanted at the time, and has many plant varieties such as
lavender, day lilies, galadia, verbascum and pineapple sage.
The intricate, colourful mosaics generated so much interest
from visitors that Romé was commissioned to decorate a drinking
fountain in the east garden. This area is home to a vast collection
of 15 000 blue, lilac, purple and white agapanthus flowers in 21
varietals, whose colours and shapes are reflected in the mosaic
panels. The panels have now been attached and the drinking
fountain installed.
Romé is starting work on a larger, more colourful, eight-panelled
drinking fountain near the children’s playground. This will reflect
birds, cosmos and agapanthus flowers in a more colourful palette.
This fabrication should take two months to complete, after Details of garden-inspired mosaic by Romé Zurnamer

Mosaic artist Romé Zurnamer seated at a water trough created in 2020 for the Sundial Garden

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