For the gardens of the Atlantic Seaboard and Southern Suburbs.

The Rock House name.

Rock House is a Hout Bay heritage estate the founder grew up around. The name belongs to the valley — quiet, established, made of stone, not in a hurry. The company is named for the same idea: built to last, not built to flip.

Rock House Gardens is the garden, pool and home-management division of Rock House (Pty) Ltd. Other divisions sit under the same parent.

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Before the gardens.

Jed Druiff came to garden care the long way round. He trained and qualified as a game ranger in Botswana — years spent reading wild landscapes, learning how an ecosystem holds together, and the patience that fieldwork demands.

He then spent seven years running a self-sustaining farm in the Tankwa Karoo — growing herbs and produce to a commercial standard in one of the harshest, driest landscapes in the country, and supplying restaurants and retailers like Pesto Princess, BM Foods (Mediterranean), Ima Parman, Food Lover's Market and others with basil, wild rocket, coriander, okra and more. Farming the Tankwa for seven years — soil, season, water, consistency — is where the discipline behind Rock House Gardens was built: crops out there don't forgive a missed visit.

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Six years in.

Before Rock House, the founder spent six years running garden services across Hout Bay and the Atlantic Seaboard for other operators. Six years of weekly visits, season after season, on the same gardens. That kind of repetition teaches you something the brochure version of the work doesn't — what each garden was meant to be, where it has drifted, and what it asks back from the gardener.

Two ideas came out of that time. First: a garden has three dimensions, not two. Most pruning treats a hedge as a flat outline. A garden that holds its shape over years is one cut for depth and volume — the way a gardener sees, not the way a hedge clipper does. Second: most established gardens have drifted from what they were planted to be. The first job is to read the original intent of the planting. The second is to bring the garden back to itself, gradually, in its own register — botanical where botanical was meant, looser where it allows.

Rock House Gardens was registered in 2026 to put those ideas behind a company that owners can actually rely on — Pty Ltd, registered, insured, on a written schedule, with one named contact.

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What that looks like in practice.

Pride in the work. Rock House Gardens believes in lifting up the community we work in — and that starts with the team doing the work. When the people on a job feel valued, the work itself reflects it. That's the whole hiring philosophy.

On schedule. Every client gets a written schedule — what gets done, on which day, by which team. Visits happen as scheduled. Any genuine change is flagged in writing, not silently absorbed.

Clearly priced. One on-site assessment, one written quote, one annual review. No surcharges, no surprise add-ons mid-year. International owners get monthly invoices in ZAR with a clear summary.

Documented. For home-management clients, we send a monthly report with photos. For garden clients, we keep a service log so you (and the next gardener, if it ever changes hands) can see exactly what's been done.

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The team.

A small team of experienced gardeners. Combined experience: thirty-two years across the four of them.