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Arrow Landscapes

Our Projects

Commercial, domestic and specialised construction projects.

Our Work

Built to exacting standards

Commercial, domestic and specialised construction work, plus the experience our founders bring from before Arrow Landscapes.

CommercialLandscape Construction With Design By OthersSALI Award of Excellence 2024

Old Cape Quarter

Arrow Landscapes for Old Cape Quarter won a Water Wise SALI Award of Excellence in 2024, in the category Landscape Construction With Design By Others. The photo shows the planting at Old Cape Quarter.

Award photos: SALI

CommercialGardens

Stone labyrinth garden

After: the completed stone labyrinth with mulch paths Before: bare site with the first stone walling laid along a timber fence BeforeAfter

A dry-stone labyrinth garden on a commercial site. The work began on a bare site, with the first stone walling laid along a timber fence. Dry-stone labyrinth walls were then built up from set-out pegs, and the finished labyrinth has mulch paths, planting, pathways and raised stone beds.

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CommercialEstate landscaping

Klein Daria

Estate landscaping at Klein Daria, including a planted entrance bank, grass terraces with stone steps, raised concrete planters and planted retaining wall banks.

CommercialCourtyard garden

23 Lower Long Street, Cape Town

A courtyard garden for an apartment building in Cape Town, with a meandering stepping-stone path through planted beds.

CommercialInterior and roof planting

Station House, Cape Town

Interior and roof planting at Station House in Cape Town, including atrium planters and a rooftop garden above the street.

CommercialShopping centre landscaping

SCP Paardevlei

Landscaping at the SCP Paardevlei shopping centre, shown in aerial views of the centre and the surrounding estate.

CommercialShopping centre landscaping

SCP Plettenberg Bay

Shopping centre landscaping in Plettenberg Bay. The photos follow the site from a bare cleared site, to new palms and grass planting, to the planted parking island and trees at the centre.

CommercialEstate landscaping

Tokai Retirement Estate

Estate landscaping at a retirement estate in Tokai, with a timber boardwalk through a wetland pond, planted estate paths and slope planting.

Specialised Construction and LandscapingSALI Award of Excellence 2024

Sluysken Park, Cape Town

Sluysken Park in Cape Town won a SALI Award of Excellence in 2024, in the category Specialised Construction and Landscaping. The photos show the play park, with shade sails, coloured rubber surfacing, a slide and paved paths.

Specialised ConstructionSALI Award of Excellence 2026

Curro Rosen Castle

Curro Rosen Castle won a SALI Award of Excellence in 2026, in the category Specialised Construction. The photos show a school playground with sand play areas, swings, shade sails, timber play structures and water play.

Award photos: SALI

Specialised ConstructionPlaygrounds

Playground construction

Playground construction for schools and pre-schools, with timber play structures, rubber surfacing, shade sails, swings, slides and artificial turf.

Specialised ConstructionPlaygrounds

Pre school and school play areas

Play areas built at Bishops Pre Primary, Curro Century City and Sluysken Park in Cape Town, including a timber climbing structure under shade sails, an artificial turf mound with concrete pipe tunnels, and coloured rubber surfacing with swings.

Specialised ConstructionGabions

Gabion construction

Gabion walls built as lawn edging, planters, retaining walls and pond edges, shown from construction through to the finished work.

Specialised ConstructionDecking

Wooden decking

Wooden decking and timber walkways, from a deck frame under construction to finished decks around trees, curved decks on paving and timber stairs onto a dune.

Specialised ConstructionWater features

Water features

Natural ponds edged with river stones, planting and mulch, and a water play feature built from river stones with running water jets.

Water play feature

Specialised ConstructionTrellis

Trellis work

Trellis work on walls and stairs, including trellis wires being strung on a wall, cable trellis with plants at its base and a creeper along a brick stair wall.

Specialised ConstructionPaving

Paving and edging

Paving and edging in gravel, terracotta pavers, cobble setts and large pavers set in grass, with narrow stepping stones along a stone wall.

Specialised ConstructionRetention and concrete

Soil retention and concrete work

Soil retention with a geocell slope being filled and planted beside a road, and cast concrete benches with brick paving beside a road.

Specialised ConstructionPublic garden

Rhenish Girls’ High School

The rose garden at Rhenish Girls’ High School in Stellenbosch has raised concrete beds, trellis arches and a sundial.

Specialised ConstructionIrrigation design

Irrigation and water reticulation design

An irrigation and water reticulation design drawing for a commercial site. Irrigation design and water reticulation design are part of what we do, alongside automatic irrigation installation, pumps, water tanks and drainage.

DomesticBuilding and garden

Natural stone rockery and garden

After: the finished, planted natural-stone rockery Before: rock and stone stockpiled on the building site BeforeAfter

A natural stone rockery and garden around a new build. Rock and stone stockpiled on the building site became a finished, planted natural-stone rockery.

DomesticStellenbosch

Stellenbosch courtyard

Courtyard planting in Stellenbosch, with tree ferns, palms and ground covers.

DomesticPassage gardens

Garden passages and stepping stone paths

Side passage and courtyard gardens with stepping stones, pavers, pebble beds, timber steps and dense planting, shown from newly laid to mature.

DomesticWater garden

Natural stone water garden

A natural stone water garden on a sloping site, with slate clad pond edges, slate waterfall steps, stone steps and boulders, and a stone patio.

DomesticLawn garden

Lawn garden with curved brick edging

A lawn garden with curved brick edging and a planted island, photographed from above, from the house site during building works to the finished lawn.

DomesticFynbos and rockeries

Fynbos and rockery gardens

A selection of fynbos and rockery gardens, with stone retaining steps, terraced rockeries, block retaining walls, boulder steps, white agapanthus and lavender banks, and a fynbos garden around a pool with a mountain view.

Founders’ ExperienceBefore Arrow Landscapes1995 to 1997

Sun City

Sun City logo

Before Arrow Landscapes, our founders supervised nursery, landscaping and maintenance work at Sun City, working through Top Turf.

Founders’ ExperienceBefore Arrow Landscapes1995 to 2000

Top Turf

Top Turf logo

Our founders worked as supervisors at Top Turf, the start of the hands-on experience they bring to every Arrow Landscapes project.

Founders’ ExperienceBefore Arrow Landscapes2000 to 2013

Eco Creations

Eco Creations

Our founders supervised irrigation and landscaping work at Eco Creations from 2000, and later became shareholders, until founding Arrow Landscapes in 2013.

These are the companies our founders worked with before establishing Arrow Landscapes in 2013. They are not Arrow Landscapes projects.

More project photos are being added.

Experience & recognition

Awards, experience and memberships

Award winning projects

Arrow Landscapes projects honoured at the SALI Awards of Excellence in 2024 and 2026.

Founders’ experience

Where our founders built their careers before establishing Arrow Landscapes in 2013.

  • Eco Creations

Industry memberships

Member of the South African Irrigation Institute (SABI) and the South African Landscapers Institute (SALI).

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