2GreenLandscaping & garden maintenance in Wellington
Just north of our Paarl base, Wellington's warm, fertile valley is prime growing country, and 2Green helps its gardens make the most of it.
Your local garden team in Wellington
Wellington is the 'cradle' of South Africa's vine industry, its greenhouse-like climate produces the bulk of the country's vine-nursery stock, alongside fruit orchards, olives and table grapes. That same warmth and fertility is great for gardens, but the hot summers make irrigation and water-wise planting essential.
At the foot of the historic Bain's Kloof Pass and the Groenberg slopes, we service town homes, smallholdings and farm gardens: from lawns and beds to full landscaping, irrigation installation and tree care. We are a short drive from Wellington and work here regularly.
Where we work around Wellington
What Wellington gardens are working with
The ground
Wellington does not have one soil. The valley floor is alluvial gravel and cobble over Malmesbury shale, so a planting hole on the flats is a job, not a task. The lower terraces are that shale, the mid slopes sandstone, Groenberg and Bovlei slopes decomposed granite. One irrigation programme cannot serve all four.
The weather
Rain falls between mid-April and early October, and the published estimates for the town range from about 790 to 820 mm a year. That leaves six and a half months when the garden gets only what you give it, under January highs near 30 degrees. July nights drop to around 7 degrees, so frost is an event, not a season.
The properties
Wellington is a freehold town: 9,586 of its 10,564 properties are own-title houses, against 598 sectional title units. Most work here is a private garden with a lawn and a boundary. Another 380 erven stand vacant, Berg-en-Dal taking most of the plot sales, so we also start from bare ground.
Best lawn for Wellington
Cynodon on the open gravel, buffalo in part shade, LM Berea in deep shade.
Kikuyu is the default and it does hold in Wellington's open sun, but not under an old canopy. What actually decides it is the ground and the heat: on the gravel flats water runs straight through, and Cynodon takes that, plus a 30 degree afternoon and traffic. Buffalo does not recover well from summer heat damage, so we keep it to part shade. LM Berea only for deep shade, laid in spring.
What we plant here
Proteas, ericas, restios and leucadendrons on the granite and river gravel; olives, lavender, rosemary, tulbaghia and dietes on the shale.
The soil decides. The gravel and cobble of this valley floor is Swartland Alluvium Fynbos ground, over three quarters of it already ploughed out, and it will still carry protea and erica if you leave it poor. So no manure, no bone meal, no phosphate, which kills proteas outright. On the shale, proteas sulk and the Mediterranean crew does better. Plant in autumn, once the rain opens.
What we get called out to in Wellington
Wellington soil warms early in spring. That is one of the documented reasons the vine-grafting nurseries settled here, and it catches gardeners out: beds are drawing water in September, before the colder head of the valley at Franschhoek moves, while the system is still switched off from winter. The gardens we take over here are behind on irrigation more often than on pruning. Service and zone it in early September.
Watering rules: Drakenstein Municipality
Checked August 2026
Level 0, in force since 1 November 2020
This town falls under Drakenstein, not Stellenbosch, so a Stellenbosch neighbour is on a different rulebook. Drakenstein's standing notice to users of municipal potable water allows watering of gardens, lawns and beds before 10:00 and after 16:00, every day. Boreholes and well points inside the municipal network must be registered, and under the Drakenstein Water and Sanitation Services By-law of 2023 any alternative water source must display the municipality's sign.
Restriction levels change with dam levels. Confirm the current one with Drakenstein Municipality before you set an irrigation controller.
What we do in Wellington
Complete landscaping and garden care for private homes and estate common grounds alike.
Garden landscaping & design
Complete garden landscaping: from concept and planting plans to paving, lawns, retaining walls and water-wise indigenous gardens, built to transform your outdoor space.
Garden maintenance
Regular garden maintenance for private gardens and estate common grounds: mowing, weeding, pruning, hedge trimming, bed care and seasonal clean-ups all year.
Irrigation systems
Water-wise irrigation designed, installed and maintained so your lawns, beds and new landscaping thrive with less water.
Tree felling & pruning
Tree felling, removal and pruning, plus lawn treatment and pest & weed control by experienced, horticulturally-minded hands.
Paving & hard landscaping
Patios, driveways and garden paths laid on a properly prepared base, with edging and drainage that keep them level for years.
Instant lawn
Supplied, prepared and laid: a level, rooted lawn in a day, with the soil prep and top-dressing that makes it take.
Artificial grass
Hard-wearing artificial grass for shaded corners, pet runs and small courtyards where real lawn simply will not grow.
Wellington garden FAQs
Do you work on smallholdings and farm gardens around Wellington?๏ผ
Yes. Alongside town gardens we look after smallholdings and farm homesteads, including larger lawns, established trees and irrigation for bigger properties.
How far is Wellington from your base?๏ผ
Wellington is a short drive north of our Paarl base at Val de Vie, so we service it regularly for both once-off landscaping and scheduled garden maintenance.
Can I grow proteas and fynbos in my Wellington garden?๏ผ
It depends which part of town you are in. On the decomposed granite of the Groenberg and Bovlei slopes, and on the river gravel of the valley floor, yes: that is fynbos ground, and it takes proteas, ericas, restios and leucadendrons. On the heavier shale of the lower terraces they sulk, and olives, lavender, rosemary, tulbaghia and dietes do better. Either way we plant without manure, bone meal or phosphate, which proteas do not survive, and we plant in autumn so the winter rain does the establishing.
Nearby areas we serve
Helpful guides for Wellington gardens
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