Linzé Klopper

I'm an experienced and qualified landscape designer and horticulturist specializing in sustainability. I have been in the field since 2018 and have since experienced a wide variety of environments, from private gardens in high end estates; wine farms; resorts to small backyard gardens. I am passionate about plants and how design can transform spaces into aesthetically functioning spaces.

I do 2d and 3d designs for new landscapes or improvement thereof. 

Environments include but does not exclude:

 -public gardens (e.g. food to table restaurants/resort/conference center/office)

 -home gardens -hospital gardens (healing gardens)

 -school gardens 

Other services offered: 

-Landscape maintenance

-Landscape team lead and manager

-Horticultural/landscaping consultation services

The Gardening Cure
Landscape designer and Horticultural consultant
October 2020 - Present (3 years 2 months)
South Africa
-Landscape design of new environments/existing sites, private homes and public spaces(resorts/ special care centers/ conference centers)
-Sustainable -landscape design/farming consultation and horticultural maintenance/managing practices
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Horticulturist
August 2019 - August 2020 (1 year 1 month)
Diepriver, Southern Cape, South Africa
Horticultural services including consultation and services.
Services include:
Plant training(espaliering; aesthetic pruning; pruning for health; grafting of fruit
trees/ other)
Food garden installation/design
Medicine garden installation/design
Seasonal maintenance planning/implementation
Training of staff in horticultural fields
Little Earthquakes
Horticulturist and landscaping manager
February 2019 - August 2019 (7 months)
George Area, South Africa
A landscaping company based in George, South Africa offering professional
consultation, design proposals and regular maintenance of gardens.
Babylonstoren
Intern
February 2018 - February 2019 (1 year 1 month)
South Africa
Harvesting crops for restaurants; maintaining and managing an experimental
garden (where exotic/indigenous edible plants are tested). Propagation and
maintenance for the healing garden. Nursery maintenance. Glasshouse
maintenance and propagation. Propagation for -and maintenance of all -fruit
trees in the garden.(Custard apple; Pear; Apple; Quince; Medlar; Mulberry;
Persimmon; Citrus; Guava; Kiwi; Berries; Assisting Anton Roux with pruning,
grafting and arborisculpting(also the making of Pear brandy). -Odd jobs:
maintaining the garden office library, cleaning and sorting the seed bank.
Hope Permaculture, Organic Farm and Training center
Experiential learning
June 2016 - December 2016 (7 months)
Hope Farm, Farm C81, Dawn, East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa, 5200
Experiential learning at HopeFarm-HOPE foundation and Santa Paloma Guest
farm:
Santa Paloma is an eco-centre with a green flag status, they are registered
with WESSA.
Maintenance and building different systems of the following: Food Forest; Market Vegetable Garden;
Mandala rotational gardening system; Nursery area; Herb spirals; animal
integrated systems (worms; cows and chickens); garden maintenance
and creative project creation: the floating island. Starting up an Indigenous
Arboretum and propagation of Bambusa spp. .
Booysens municipal nursery of Tshwane
Experiential learning
January 2016 - June 2016 (6 months)
Booysens Nursery, Theo Slabbert Street, Booysens, Pretoria
Booysens nursery is the municipal nursery for the city of Tshwane, they sell
as well as hire out plants to clients as well as supply all street trees of the city
of Tshwane. This nursery works in unison with TUT as a manner of training
Horticulture and Landscape students. The main categories that students are
trained in are the following:
-Propagation of ornamental bedding plants
-Vegetative propagation of ornamental plants
-Interior Plant-scaping
-Propagation, cultivation and maintenance of trees
-Identification of ornamental plants
-Propagation, cultivation and maintenance of ornamental plants
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-Allied horticultural practices (pest and disease management + greenhouse
management

National diploma in Horticulture