A garden lit at night, with sculpted trees and a curving stone path leading to a white house
Landscape & Spatial Design · Wilderness, Garden Route

A living asset.

Nature-aligned landscapes: waterwise, indigenous and low-maintenance, designed and delivered from plan to plot.

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About Imbali

Gardens that belong to their place.

Imbali is a nature-aligned landscape design studio based in Wilderness on the Garden Route. We create gardens that belong to their place: waterwise, rooted in indigenous planting, and designed to thrive with minimal upkeep.

We take a project from first sketch to final planting. We design, build and project-manage every stage, from site planning, irrigation and stonework to pools, water features, green walls, and the furniture and planters that finish a space. The result is a landscape that looks effortless, works with the climate rather than against it, and gets better with every season.

Waterwise

Planting and irrigation planned around every drop, for gardens that hold up through dry seasons.

Indigenous

Rooted in the plants of this landscape, from fynbos to forest edge, so the garden feels it was always there.

Low-maintenance

Designed to settle in and mature with ease, so you spend your time enjoying it, not tending it.

Selected work

Stone, water, light and living green.

More on Instagram
Courtyard garden with a dry-stone clad wall, tree ferns, gravel and sculptural seating
Courtyard · stone cladding, tree ferns, gravel garden
Hand-built stone fire pit overlooking the lagoon at sunset
Stone fire pit
The same courtyard during installation: fresh stone wall and new tree ferns in prepared soil
The courtyard during installation
Garden lighting at night along a curved stone path
Garden lighting & pathways
Lush green wall behind a timber-decked terrace with a concrete table and woven chairs
Green wall terrace · Wilderness
Indoor planter with a strelitzia beside a rope chair and sea view
Interior planting & planters
Services

Everything, from plan to plot.

We design, implement and project-manage, so one team carries your landscape from the first site visit to the last planter.

01

Design & site planning

Full site planning and landscape design, from concept to detailed planting and layout plans, with project management throughout.

02

Stone, pools & water

Wall cladding, pools and water features, built with natural materials that weather beautifully.

03

Implementation & irrigation

Installation, planting and efficient irrigation, delivered by our own team and managed to plan.

04

Green walls & interiors

Green walls and vertical installations, garden furniture, and indoor pots and planters to carry the garden inside.

Kind words

“What makes her approach particularly special is her ability to understand the natural character of an area and design around it rather than trying to compete with it. Our garden always had enormous potential, but very little structure or direction. Lizl has transformed it into something truly magnificent.”

Ruan de Jager · Cornerstone Creek

“Imbali Landscapers transformed my world. When I moved to the Garden Route, I had no idea how to grow a garden that made sustainable, ecological sense. Lizl arrived with creative vision, intuitive knowledge and a long-term strategy that started transforming my space straight away. She begins from a grounded, affordable starting point, yet adapts easily as a project grows. Imbali is trustworthy, professional, courageous and rooted in an unrivalled respect for nature. I would recommend Lizl’s passionate service again and again.”

Tina Kruger

“Lizl is amazing with what she does and the love and passion she has with working with plants is so visible. Lizl helped us with the gardens for a wedding and it was nothing less than spectacular!”

Trevlyn Mayo Palframan

“Friendly, passionate owners and a wonderful eye for plants. Imbali brings beautiful, living spaces together with real care. Well done!”

Nadine Pinto
Begin your garden

Let’s talk about your space.

We work across the Garden Route and the rest of South Africa, and take on projects abroad. Enquire about our packages.

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Phone & WhatsApp
082 334 7251
Email
lizl.imbali@gmail.com
Studio
52 Sands Road, Wilderness Train Station
Wilderness 3865
Service area
Garden Route · South Africa · International on enquiry
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