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5 Good Reasons to Visit Elgin Open Gardens Festival

by Gerhard Horn Sep 13, 2017

by Gerhard Horn Sep 13, 2017

Some 20 gardens will be open to the public for this year’s Elgin Open Gardens festival which will take place on 28-29 October and 4-5 November.
6 Pitstops in Rural Constantia

by Nicol Grobler Oct 23, 2015

by Nicol Grobler Oct 23, 2015

Six brilliant reasons to take an oh-so-slow drive through one of the oldest wine regions in the Cape. 6 pitstops you need to make whilst in Constantia.
Down the Garden Paths

by Country Life Team Jan 21, 2015

by Country Life Team Jan 21, 2015

There’re enough of them in the abundant Babylonstoren near Franschhoek to lead you deliciously astray.

1 week ago by sacountrylife This #ThrowbackThursday we’re looking back on the 2016 @darlingwildflowers Show with Marion Whitehead… “Darling is a botanical hotspot where renosterveld, rietveld, sandveld and strandveld intersect, providing a wealth of floral biodiversity within the Cape West Coast Biosphere Reserve. It’s an integral part of the unique Cape Floral Kingdom and boasts more than 1 200 species of flowering plants, including about 80 endemics. The show has been held virtually every year since 1917, with a couple of exceptions during war years, and the time when a fierce Berg wind withered the blooms on picking day. Generations of families have been involved…
23 hours ago by sacountrylife Oh how pretty the West Cost is at this time of year... This #ThrowbackThursday we’re looking back on a story Heather Dugmore did with photographer Hendrik van Zijl on Nieuwoudtville from our August 2011 issue... “We’ve had wonderful rains this year. They came at just the right time for the flowers, which means that all things being well, we are in for an excellent year,” Hendrik said in June this year. From early August to late September the landscape from here to Springbok will erupt with flowers. Around Springbok there will be mostly daisies, but around Nieuwoudtville there’ll be hundreds…
7 days ago by sacountrylife We have your weekend reading sorted with our September issue. Here are 12 reasons you need a copy… 1. We put the spotlight on De Rust, our cover star this month, and get to know this authentic Klein Karoo village with Chris Marais of @karoospace . 2. We get to know the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho by horseback with @dale_r_morris . 3. We head to the !Khwa ttu San Heritage Centre with Fiona McIntosh and @shaenadey . 4. We join @obieoberholzer on a journey down memory lane as he stops into two hotels and an inn. 5. Julienne du Toit gets into the…
2 weeks ago by sacountrylife Happy World Lion Day! Thank you to Jenny Smithies for sending in this stunning entry for our monthly Image Club competition. Here’s what our Image Club judge Dale Morris had to say... “I like the way Jenny has focused on the semi-abstract with this photo taken in Addo Elephant National Park. Instead of going for a standard portrait of what was, no doubt, a handsome lion, she opted for an image about form and shape. At once recognisable as a lion, it is also quite unusual and therefore eye-catching. A pity she didn’t use a larger depth of field, as…
1 month ago by sacountrylife We've got our Monday game face on. We hope you do too. #MondayMotivation ⁠ ⁠ Thanks to Michael Cunningham for this stunning entry in our July 2019 Image Club competition. Here's what our Image Club judge Julia Lloyd had to say...⁠ ⁠ "Oh, you absolute beauty. What a stunning portrait of a cheetah, taken at Kragga Kamma Game Park in the Eastern Cape. And, unusually, using a standard lens, so the cheetah must have been pretty close to Michael. With his aperture at f/2, Michael had to be spot on with his focus, which he was. It’s pin-sharp on the face,…
4 days ago by sacountrylife Ready to launch into the week like...⁠ #MondayMotivation ⁠ ⁠ Thank you to Geo Jooste for this winning entry of a shikra bird in our August 2019 Image Club competition. Here's what our Image Club judge @dale_r_morris had to say...⁠ ⁠ Geo took this photograph from a bird hide at Indlovu River Lodge in Hoedspruit in the early morning. If only the image capture had been made with this raptor’s wings spread, it would have been a magnificent image. As it is, it’s still a great photo. There are a number of aspects in this image that make it a winner.…

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