You can create dimensionality by incorporating varying levels into your garden design.  You can either utilize extreme levels or subtle levels.  It depends on your personal taste and the area where you would like to create your garden.

Terraces and raised flower beds are both options to be used in creating different levels in your garden.  You can also plant a selection of plants together, which vary in species, density and height.  Decorative boulders, water features, Koi ponds, and wooden decking are also often employed to add different levels in your garden.

The possibilities are truly endless!  Our landscaping gurus will astound you with their inspired ideas.

Should you wish to have your very own Kingfisher garden, you can contact our office on (012) 460 7990 or send us an e-mail to edrich@badecbros.com and we will send one of our highly experienced and innovative landscaping designers out to create a unique garden design, tailored to your specific needs.  You will also be provided with a free, no-obligation quotation.

Our team of dedicated professionals has been designing and implementing exceptional and beautiful gardens in a professional manner for the past 12 years.  We can also provide the home owner with any exterior decorative feature.  We pride ourselves in providing our clients with excellent, efficient and comprehensive service.  We offer all the products and services associated with creating a peaceful, and aesthetically pleasing outdoor living space which will complement the style of your home and in which you can relax.

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One can add depth and appeal to garden design, by using an extensive palette of colours. This can be applied to all of the materials incorporated in creating a unique garden.

The first range of materials would be plants. You are not restricted to flowering plants in bringing colour into your garden. Many plants have varied foliage colours. Just look around you when you are outdoors. Try to count how many shades of green you can count, by merely looking at the leaves on the plants around you. Decorative grasses, such as mondo grass (ophiopogon japonicus), dwarf mondo grass (ophiopogon japonicus kyoto), and jaburan grass (ophiopogon jaburan vittatus) have beautiful green leaves. Black mondo grass (ophiopogon planiscapus nigrescens) is a dark purple-black colour and acorus gold grass shimmers like old gold. Agaves are grey-green in colour, while euphorbias are a darker green and four fingers range in colour from pale green to bright orange. Fire chief phormiums are a beautiful rusty red in colour and the leaves on a star jasmine are dark green.

Flowering plants add seasonal colour, such as the bright yellow or deep orange flowers on the day lily. Gorgeously dainty pink flowers adorn the gaura – butterfly plant – and who can resist the blood red of a rose?

You can also use pebbles, rocks, stepping stones, pots, sculptures and benches to add colour to your garden. The possibilities are truly endless! Our landscaping gurus will astound you with their inspired ideas.

Should you wish to have your very own Kingfisher garden, you can contact our office on (012) 460 7990 or send us an e-mail to edrich@badecbros.com and we will send one of our highly experienced and innovative landscaping designers out to create a unique garden design, tailored to your specific needs. You will also be provided with a free, no-obligation quotation. Our team of dedicated professionals has been designing and implementing exceptional and beautiful gardens in a professional manner for the past 12 years.

We can also provide the home owner with any exterior decorative feature. We pride ourselves in providing our clients with excellent, efficient and comprehensive service. We offer all the products and services associated with creating a peaceful, and aesthetically pleasing outdoor living space which will complement the style of your home and in which you can relax.

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The use of various textures in garden design adds interest and dimensionality to the overall aesthetic appearance of your garden. You can use a varied plant palette to add sensuality to your garden. Decorative grasses, such as mondo grass (ophiopogon japonicus), dwarf mondo grass (ophiopogon japonicus kyoto), jaburan grass (ophiopogon jaburan vittatus) and black mondo grass (ophiopogon planiscapus nigrescens) create a soft, waving appearance, especially when planted en masse. Plump, waxy succulents, such as rock roses, euphorbias, kalanchoes and aloes add a sense of fecundity and display beautifully as feature plants. Spiky plants, such as agaves, yuccas and cacti add a theatrical sense to your garden and are best flaunted as feature plants or border plants. Dainty, flowering plants normally add splashes of colour and an almost impish ambience to your garden.

Other materials that can be used to incorporate interesting textured levels into your garden include pebbles, rocks, slate rock, stepping stones, wooden decking, bark chips, concrete screed surfaces and mosaic. Sculptural elements, such as dogon ladders, dogon benches, planters, sculptures and mill stones are also ideal in adding interesting textures to your garden.

The possibilities are truly endless! Our landscaping gurus will astound you with their inspired ideas.

Should you wish to have your very own Kingfisher garden, you can contact our office on (012) 460 7990 or send us an e-mail to edrich@badecbros.com and we will send one of our highly experienced and innovative landscaping designers out to create a unique garden design, tailored to your specific needs. You will also be provided with a free, no-obligation quotation. Our team of dedicated professionals has been designing and implementing exceptional and beautiful gardens in a professional manner for the past 12 years.

We can also provide the home owner with any exterior decorative feature. We pride ourselves in providing our clients with excellent, efficient and comprehensive service. We offer all the products and services associated with creating a peaceful, and aesthetically pleasing outdoor living space which will complement the style of your home and in which you can relax.

Linda Poultney ©

Appropriate drainage in a garden is of utmost importance; otherwise you will end up with muddy areas in your garden, rotting plants or even worse, damaged house and wall foundations.

Soil types, such as clay soil, will certainly cause drainage problems in your garden, as it tends to retain water.  A shallow water table on your property will also create drainage problems.  You can check for poor drainage on your property by looking out for wet patches or puddles of water on the ground.  

The first technique you can use to improve the drainage in your garden, entails removing the first 15cm of topsoil and replacing it with more soluble soil.

Another technique which can be used – and which is not as intensive – is to create different levels in your garden area.  You can either arrange a slightly sloped ground level in your garden, or you can shape your garden areas in such a way, as to create channels to carry the excess water away.

A third technique involves installing a French drain.  This entails creating a type of underground sieve, by digging a trench and filling it with loose debris, like excess building materials or pebbles.  This sieve should be covered by a strong steel grid and a layer of top soil of about 15cm thick.  The ideal place to create this sieve would be at the lowest part of the garden, where most of the water gathers.

You can also utilize a poorly drained area by having your landscaper design and create a large pond. 

Should you wish to have your very own Kingfisher garden, you can contact our office on (012) 460 7990 or send us an e-mail to edrich@badecbros.com and we will send one of our highly experienced and innovative landscaping designers out to create a unique garden design, tailored to your specific needs.  You will also be provided with a free, no-obligation quotation.

Our team of dedicated professionals has been designing and implementing exceptional and beautiful gardens in a professional manner for the past 12 years.  We can also provide the home owner with any exterior decorative feature.  We pride ourselves in providing our clients with excellent, efficient and comprehensive service.  We offer all the products and services associated with creating a peaceful, and aesthetically pleasing outdoor living space which will complement the style of your home and in which you can relax.

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A sloping garden area has the potential of causing a lot of logistical garden lay-out headaches for a home owner. Fortunately our professional team of landscaping experts is at hand to offer years of experience and superb assistance.

Should you find yourself with a sloping garden area, you can contact our office on (012) 460 7990 or send us an e-mail to edrich@badecbros.com and we will send one of our highly experienced and innovative landscaping designers out to create a unique garden design, tailored to your specific needs. You will also be provided with a free, no-obligation quotation.

Our team of dedicated professionals has been designing and implementing exceptional and beautiful gardens in a professional manner for the past 12 years. We can also provide the home owner with any exterior decorative feature. We pride ourselves in providing our clients with excellent, efficient and comprehensive service. We offer all the products and services associated with creating a peaceful, and aesthetically pleasing outdoor living space which will complement the style of your home and in which you can relax.

Linda Poultney ©

Badec Bros Landscaping trading as Kingfisher Landscaping featured on Kyknet’s Tuine en Tossels last night.  One of our prolific landscaping designers, Liam van Schalkwyk, was interviewed with regard to our dynamic landscaping and décor companies. 

Kingfisher Landscaping has become a household name in Pretoria, Johannesburg and the surrounding areas, due to our brilliant and inspirational landscape designs and professional implementations.  Our in-house décor company, Badec Bros Deco is really coming into its own, with the trend-setting designs, excellent workmanship and professional service our company provides.

The landscaping experts at Kingfisher Landscaping design and implement exceptional and beautiful gardens in a professional manner.  We pride ourselves in providing our clients with excellent, efficient and comprehensive service.  We offer all the products and services associated with creating a peaceful, and aesthetically pleasing outdoor living space which will complement the style of your home and in which you can relax.

Badec Bros Landscaping (Pty) Ltd t/a Kingfisher Landscaping is a South African company that offers an exclusive and extensive landscaping service. The company provides their clients with trend setting landscape designs and state of the art irrigation systems, water features, Koi ponds, wooden decking and garden illumination. One of the advantages of this service is that the client only needs to work with one company to get their whole exterior living space designed and implemented in a professional manner. Badec Bros Landscaping (Pty) Ltd prides itself in always keeping in touch with international standards and always staying in front with its trend setting landscape designs. The company is a service orientated company that always puts the client first.

This dynamic company is urgently looking for qualified Landscaping Designers for Gauteng, Durban and Cape Town.  Should you have the necessary qualifications, experience and a serious go-getter attitude, you can contact our CEO, Edrich Badenhorst at the office at (012) 460 7990 or send him an e-mail with your CV attached to edrich@badecbros.com

We are proud to inform you that Kingfisher Landscaping, Badec Bros Deco, Badec Bros Wooden Decking and Badec Bros Mosaic received 5 certificates at the DesignEx 2009!! 

We received a Gold Certificate, Merit Award for the Best Use of Colour and a Merit Award for the Most Innovative Concept for our Al Fresco Gallery stand.  Our Sculptured Sanctuary stand won a Bronze Certificate and a Merit Award for the Most Water Wise Garden.

This exciting event is hosted by Safari Garden Centre, on the corner of Lynnwood and Rubida Streets in The Willows, Pretoria East. The show features stands designed by landscaping designers from across Gauteng and will run until the end of May 2009.  You are welcome to visit the show and amble through all the miniature gardens at your leisure. 

Our stands – Al Fresco Gallery and Sculptured Sanctuary – display the pioneering designing prowess of our team with regard to both hardscaping and soft landscaping (Kingfisher Landscaping); innovative exterior steel décor (Badec Bros Deco); eye-catching wooden decking (Badec Bros Wooden Decking), as well as, striking mosaic art (Badec Bros Mosaic). 

Our energetic sales representative, Mareleen van Zijl, is more than willing to arrange a meeting with you.  Should you be interested in meeting with Mareleen, please do not hesitate to contact her on her cell phone at 078 800 5112, the office number at 012 460 7990, or via e-mail at mareleen@badecbros.com

The creative landscaping designers at Kingfisher Landscaping have designed and constructed many innovative Koi ponds over the last decade.  A Koi pond acts as a strong focal feature in a garden, adding a lively, organic element to your overall garden design.  Not only does it operate as a beautiful water feature, it also houses vibrant, colourful Koi fish.

The designing opportunities for Koi ponds are endless.  We can create your unique Koi pond in virtually any shape and size, and with any type of finish you would like.  Be it a small, compact and abstract Koi pond, with a screed finish, or a large and imposing one with glittering mosaic tiles.  We will make sure it meets your needs and complements the architectural design of your home.

Kingfisher Landscaping will design and create your exclusive Koi pond from scratch.  You can compare your creative ideas with those of our professional designer, and we will be sure to create the Koi pond of your dreams for you.