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PROJECT

KIMIAD DRIVING RANGE

AND FARMSTEAD

The Kimiad golf and leisure facility is located in Moreleta Park, Pretoria East. The
80 hectare farmstead offers a variety of facilities that the community can enjoy, the

main one being an 18-hole executive golf course and driving range. Around the
golf course there are restaurants, a retail nursery, a fruit and vegetable market, yoga
studio, padel park and coffee shop.

Project Team
Client: Kimiad
Landscape Architect: Michael Meyer
Landscape Design & Installation:
Garden Gate Landscaping

A flowering perennial border edging the putting green, with taller growing Dyschoriste thunbergiiflora screening the parking area at the back

he client briefed Arné Minnaar of the contours of the existing landscape, people would be drawn to. The new garden
Garden Gate Landscaping to upgrade bringing the flow of the landscape to visitors’ beds were required to balance the sloping
Tthe facility according to certain attention. In addition, the garden beds were landscape and include textural and seasonal
guidelines, and she needed to ensure that required to focus on Kimiad’s existing trees floral details.
the landscaping was indigenous, water wise, and their ‘awe-inspiring presence’. Planting The planting design inside the beds used
low maintenance and with functional public details inside the beds are designed to uplift foliage texture and seasonal flowers to
spaces and wildlife activities. Importantly, visitors who come to the farm to relax and add layers of interest. It was also important
it was to serve as a seasonal floral tribute unwind. to retain Kimiad’s existing giant trees
to Michael Meyer’s late mother, Marianna The new gardens were also required to comprising Eucalyptus grandis, Tipiana tipo
Meyer, who passed away in 2022. consider existing walkways, putting greens and Celtis africana. Minnaar says the gardens
and the driving range. Planting needed now “add to the flowing golf course with its
Design aspects to create new vistas, accentuate existing waterways and soft, leafy overstorey.”
Minnaar’s landscape design philosophy views, add interesting progression points She says that although the Eucalyptus,
was to create garden beds that built on to the walkways, and create places that Tipiana and Pinus pinata trees are not

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