Garden Day is a blossoming new movement aimed at cultivating a love for gardening.
SCENTED flowers in an array of bright colours lay against a backdrop of crisp, green grass. The odd garden gnome stands perfectly positioned and there’s a cute little pond covered in water lilies that adds the finishing touch to the blooming flora.
It’s the kind of scene that brings joy to Constance Stuurman and Gundula Deut schlander, the gardeners behind Garden Day.
The pair – gardeners at Babylons toren, a historic Cape Dutch farm situated near Paarl in the Western Cape – realised one day how lucky they were to have a garden as their office.
“They thought it would be a great idea if everyone could devote one day a year to simply enjoying their gardens,” says Lisa Pellat, who works on the communications campaign of Garden Day.
It didn’t take long for word of the initiative to spread and soon big companies, such as retail giant Woolworths and the South African Nursery Association, came on board.
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