Why Winter is the best time to renovate your garden South Africans love being in the garden in summer; but right now, it is mid-winter; and in the Western Cape it is freezing outside and it has been raining for weeks. Our gardens are drenched and forlorn. We’d all...
This article was first published in Outside & In magazine, March 2021. Click here to read it in the e-magazine. As is imitation to flattery, so is a landscape designer to nature. Being an avid user of the Mediterranean palette, whether it be plants, colours or...
THE PARADISE OF EXOTIC MOROCCO AT THE FOOT OF TABLE MOUNTAIN By Lucy Schnell – Landscape Designer, Contours Design Studio You would never have guessed it, but tucked behind a high wall in the City of Cape Town suburb of Gardens, just below the flank of Table Mountain...
It’s a wonderful sunny weekend morning, you’ve been up early and that itch to work in the garden and spruce up your beds needs to be scratched. You patiently wait for your partner to wake up or best friend to get to you because today you are going to your local plant...
5 STEPS TO TURN YOUR GARDEN INTO A VIBRANT OUTDOOR SPACE TO ENJOY When you think about your garden, what is the first emotion it provokes? If it’s shame and discontent, don’t worry, we’re here to help to set your garden and yourself up for success. If you are...
15 Minutes with Lucy Schnell, CDS landscape designer ON BEING A LANDSCAPER, AND GETTING LOST IN A WORLD OF EARTH, PLANTS, LIGHT AND WATER. Landscape design is defined by ScienceDirect as the art and science of arranging land so as to adapt it most conveniently,...
