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Wooden jungle gym with a climbing wall, and tunnel berm in the Montessori school play area
Planting in front of the apartments
An open, park-like space in front of the apartments
Landscape installation, irrigation • attending to the design and structuring As the project is ongoing, regular
and maintenance of garden bed planting to complement changes and upgrades are attended to, and
This was undertaken by David Kearns of the overall landscape design; Vibing Gardens also maintains Kliprivier
Vibing Gardens, who has been involved in • supply and planting of trees ranging Road which is in close proximity to Thaba
the project since its inception. Their scope from 100 – 1000 l, as well as ex-open Eco Village.
of work was the following: ground trees that were brought in with A manual irrigation system has been
• soil preparation; Balwin Properties crane trucks; installed, and this is automation ready. A
produced stockpiles of good quality • moving and placing of large boulders borehole was drilled and will form part of
topsoil during the excavation process; that were available on site; the irrigation system in future. The above-
• supply of quality organic materials to • arranging the geo-line installation for mentioned water feature is also a functional
enhance the topsoil quality; the water feature/catchment dam, catchment dam, and in the near future
• preparation of large areas (with bobcats, and installation of the pump and will be equipped and connected to the
TLBs and front-end loaders provided by fountains; irrigation system.
Balwin); small to medium areas were • supply and planting of aquatic plants; Vibing Gardens was awarded the grounds
prepared manually; • installation of two rooftop gardens; maintenance contract which is successfully
• sourcing and supplying the best • attending to all landscaped areas for managed by their site manager, Reinette
available quality trees and plants; clean-ups, in preparation for hand-over. Schreiber. n
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