Wilma and Rodney, residents of Riviersonderend in the Overberg region have stunned the gardening world with their remarkable creation. They have fashioned flower beds and walkways using glass bottles, and constructed a lapa out of plastic bottle caps and left over water piping. They grow most of their own food and the garden is a haven for many indigenous birds, as well as a pond full of fish. While Wilma was renovating the fish pond the fish had to live inside in their bath. This was not a problem she laughs, “you just bath in between the fish..”

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