Prince Albert Open Gardens 2025
The 2025 Prince Albert Open Gardens event saw the return of some familiar spaces together with exciting new additions. Organic vegetable farms, alluring aloe gardens, medicinal plants, garden art, veld gardens, and regenerative spaces were on display, with our gardeners on site to inform and engage.
Especially noteworthy was the tri-garden alliance where three gardens opend gates, inter-leading to create a dreamy Karoo garden space showcasing a bit of everything our unique region has to offer.
Roosplaas
Christal and Neil Dixon
An organic gardener's play space incorporating an English garden theme with peaceful mountain views. A wildlife rich leiwater dam surrounded by rose and flower beds in front of the house lead to a shady grove beneath an old pear tree, following on to a shrub and flower garden to the rear. Beyond the chicken coops lie vegetable gardens and a cross of scented roses.
Oasis Farm
Rich and Jacky Shapiro
Oasis Farm is a historical 1866 farmstead in the Kweekvallei. Re-created with passion and fun over the past five years, this 3-hectare farm organically grows an abundance of vegetables, fruit, nuts, berries, olives and Grenache vines. Freshly harvested produce and products will be available for purchase – being inspired is free!
1 Nieuwe Street
Jenny Reynolds & Patrick Kime
A visual and tangible feast of aloes, Karoo succulents, and inspiring driftwood creations will awaken your gardening senses, the tranquil space harmonising with the natural surrounds regardless the season. Wander the rock-lined walkways accompanied by birdsong and lose yourself in the dreamy Karoo wonderland Patrick and Jenny have lovingly created.
Die Blikhuis
Julie & Richard Waterston
This modern Karoo garden with its majestic Swartberg Mountains backdrop flows seamlessly with the home, effectively bringing the outside in. Julie and Richard’s beautifully thought-out areas within Die Blikhuis’ garden offer striking design elements creating pure garden bliss and inspiring spaces to sit and be one with nature.
10 Market Street
Monica Gibson
Prepare for a burst of colour, abundance, and serenity. Monica’s warm and chirpy personality mirrors her cheerful garden space with its abundance of birds and insects that feel completely at home, the birds even doing their bit – what they plant, Monica keeps. Experience the joy and floral panorama that is this garden’s reality.
Kraal
Derryn & Malcolm Searle
Be transported to a Karoo wonderland where every turn offers a new sensory garden experience. Acacia-filled savannah grasslands offset an eco-dam surrounded by local shrubs and wildlife, the next turn leads past aloes and an orchard opening to a more formal garden with old kraal walls. A working nursery and experimental seed production and re-wilding area are additional highlights.
The Karoo Garden Collective
Kraal, Swartberg House, and Karoo Huis
A thoughtfully connected trio of gardens forming one continuous, wild landscape on the edge of town. Designed with indigenous plants and low-intervention principles, each space tells its own story of beauty, resilience, and biodiversity. Shaded forests, meandering stone paths, and an eco-dam alive with birdlife create moments of serenity, while creeping spekboom, aloes, and hardy shrubs root the gardens firmly in their Karoo context. Together, they offer a shared vision of living lightly on the land.
Renu-Karoo
Sue Dean & Bertus Fourie
In the Renu-Karoo Nursery and gardens you will discover plants ideal for Karoo and Renosterveld areas. Many have never before propagated and made available to gardeners. These include dwarf succulents, Karoo shrubs with naturally rounded shapes, 50 species of indigenous Pelargoniums, grasses and reeds, aromatic and medicinal plants.