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Date: n.d. Type: Homestead Status: Extant   Click to view map Coordinates: 26°07'58.26" S 28°02'31.19" E Alt: 5513m

The homestead was designed by Steffen AHRENDS for the late Rudy Frankel of Tiger Oats in a romantic Flemish country style. The roof is tiled in cedar shingle. The garden was laid out in 1945 by legendary landscape architect, Joane PIM. It features magnificent trees including a colossal Water Oak believed to be one of the largest trees in Johannesburg. Christopher and Susan Greig, who acquired the 3.5 acre garden in the new millennium have redesigned and landscaped this into a botanical sanctuary. The Greigs have created a rain-forest, a water garden comprising six ponds and a bog, a colonnade, a formal rose garden, a lotus garden and a sunken vegetable garden. The garden, on occasion, is opened to the public. (Extracted from Beechwood Gardens website. Accessed March 2017)