Thank you to those who entered the Garden-of-the-Year 2024 competition and for the high standards you’ve set with your lovely gardens. Your efforts made the judging both a delight and a challenge!
A special thank you for dedicating your time and creativity to enhance Welgevonden Estate with your beautiful gardens. Your contributions to the estate's landscaping perfectly align with Excom's commitment to enhancing the appeal of the estate.
This year we were honoured to have internationally acclaimed landscaping architect Leon Kluge, as the competition’s main adjudicator. More information about Leon available here:
And the results are…
The winners of this year’s Welgevonden Estate Garden-of-the-Year competition – sponsored by SADIECOFFEE – are as follows:
Garden-of-the-Year 2024: Paul and Lucille Lochner, 27 Kambro Street
Runner up: Garden-of-the-Year 2024: Dalina de Villiers, 39 Mountain Silver Drive
Most Water-Wise Indigenous Garden 2024: Carolina van der Horst, 2 Honeysuckle Street
Well done to all – winners and participants! A big thank you also goes to Johann Sadie from SADIECOFFEE for generously sponsoring the first prize for this competition!
At the prizegiving: Anneke du Toit (Welgevonden Estate office manager), Dalina de Villiers, Gawie Marx (Welgevonden Estate manager), Leon Kluge (adjudicator), Paul Lochner, Lucille Lochner, Paul Jordaan (Welgevonden Estate landscape manager), Johan Sadie (SADIECOFFEE). Absent: Carolina van der Horst
Garden-of-the-Year 2024: No 27 Kambro Street – Paul and Lucille Lochner
Please see more photographs of the winning gardens below.
