Outdoor entertaining
As a designer and interior decorator, it goes without saying that Ramona has also decorated her garden to best effect. “My husband says I’m playing house out here,” she says with a chuckle.
Four years ago, she supplemented the existing brick surface at the braai area with a layer of builder’s gravel and erected a pergola for shelter. The latter is bedecked with white bougainvillea, the yellow climbing rose ‘Gold Bunny’ and strings of fairy lights. Ramona points to the many clusters of white bougainvillea blooms hanging from the pergola. “When we held my 40th birthday party here, the blooms were really impressive; some people weren’t even sure if they were real.”
Two old windows discovered at a scrapyard serve as doors under the built-in braai. “I store crockery, cutlery, napkins and glasses there for our braais. There’s even an electrical plug point and a kettle.”