A Shallow Kind of Green By Martine van Rooyen and Johan Wentzel The English TV show ‘Grand Designs’ should be accompanied by a warning for viewers. Watching this programme will make you feel that you could, and should, also build that slightly different masterpiece that will become a great family home. So when we returned […]
Rehabilitation of Disturbed Land
By Dr. Johan Wentzel Published: 30 January 2017 Copyright © All Rights Reserved Read and Download Publication (2MB) “In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we are taught.” (Baba Dioum, 1968.) The rehabilitation* of disturbed land, especially in an urban […]
Try The Truly African Way Of Landscaping
The current mainstream approach to landscaping in South Africa still has its roots in the Western European model. The general approach is a beautiful garden full of flowers with straight lines, small variety and trimmed edges. In other words, dynamic exterior decoration that is pleasing to the eye, but high maintenance and to a large […]
Landscape Restoration Project Rating System
This paper was presented during the ILASA conference that took place at the CSIR on 29 and 30 September 2016. THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RESTORATION RATING SYSTEM FOR THE CONSISTENT EVALUATION OF RESTORATION PROJECTS Johan Wentzel PhD. Wildflower Wholesale Nursery (Pty) Ltd. South Africa Ivan van der Walt. Diverse Ecological Solutions (Pty) Ltd. South Africa Abstract […]