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PROJECT

CIRCLE SENIOR LIVING

Circle Senior Living is an upmarket senior community brand with residences being
developed in Johannesburg and Cape Town. The first one, recently completed, is in
Sandown, Johannesburg. As with any development, gardens and landscaping are
strong enhancing factors, but perhaps especially so in the case of a retirement facility.

Project Team
Client: Circle Senior Living
Architects: Julian Katz Architects
Landscaper: Grace’s Glory

Corene Breedt-Rammutla, CEO and co-founder, A raised brick planter on the restaurant deck provides pleasing greenery
with Michael Sieff, executive director and co-founder
Below: A calm corner surrounded by flower colour for residents to enjoy
andscaper Bev Courtney chose
plants that flower at different times
Lof the year, so that colour, scent and
textures are always present. Scented
hybrid tea roses include Just Joey,
Zulu Royal, Alec’s Red, Double Delight,
Egoli, Garden Queen, Roberto Carpucci
and South Africa. In addition to their
fragrance, these varieties also provide
the required height. Clusters of colour-
scape roses were also planted as they
are “profuse and continuous flowerers,”
says Bev. These include Granny’s Delight,
Granny Dearest and Deloitte & Touche.
Cascading plants were used to soften
fairly vast expanses of wall. These include
Dichondra ‘Silver Falls’ and Helichrysum
petiolare for the parking area as it gives
height and a light grey foliage. Escallonia
‘Pink Princess’ was used at the entrance to
the reception area, replacing roses which
would have led to residents coming into
contact with thorns on entering the
building. This shrub flowers profusely and
continuously throughout the year.
To the left of the entrance there is
a clean Buxus hedge, with Murraya
exotica standards introduced for
scent. Other plant material includes
Raphiolepis, Freylinia, Hibiscus, Brunsfelsia,
Camellia, Azalea, Hydrangea, various
Salvia varieties, Foxgloves, Delphinium,