Halcyon designs, installs and looks after bespoke irrigation systems for homes around St Francis Bay. Every system is planned around your garden, your soil and our salt wind, so it uses only the water it needs.
St Francis Bay village · St Francis Links · Canals · Kromme River · Cape St Francis · Oyster Bay
We take on a limited number of projects, because this is work we’re passionate about. We deliver on time and on budget, nurture every client relationship, and give each project our full attention from the first site visit to the last zone test.
We assess your soil, water pressure, plants and exposure, then design each zone to water only what it needs. Systems can run from rainwater tanks, tanks fed by boreholes or wellpoints, or mains water. We agree the layout with you, then give you a detailed quote.
Quality components, neat trenching and smart controllers, installed by us. Sprinklers, pop-ups, drip and micro-jets, each used where it works best. Optional Wi-Fi controllers let you check and adjust your system from your phone, even when you’re away.
Every Halcyon system comes with a 12-month workmanship warranty. Our annual service plan adds two check-ups a year, before summer and before winter: we adjust your watering times, test every zone, flush filters and drip lines, and fix small problems before they grow. We know every valve because we put it there.
How our fees work: site consultations are R1,200, credited in full against your installation if you go ahead. Design and installation are quoted per project. Repairs and maintenance are offered only on systems we have installed.
St Francis Bay and Cape St Francis lie where two of South Africa’s great biomes meet: fynbos and subtropical thicket. On our alkaline, shell-rich coastal dunes, they form a distinctive vegetation mosaic known as the St Francis Dune Fynbos-Thicket Mosaic.
This remarkable landscape calls for irrigation systems designed around local conditions.
A R1,200 site assessment: soil, pressure, water source, plants and how you use the garden. If you have a site plan of your property, please have it ready. The fee is credited in full against your installation.
A zoned irrigation design with a clear, detailed quote. No surprises once work begins.
We install the system ourselves, test every zone and set up the controller for our climate.
You receive a walk-through of the controller, a record of where your valves and main lines run, and your warranty. You can also join our annual service plan.
Our first project is our own garden in Cape St Francis: bare mulch and risers, then a full indigenous garden on a zoned system.
Before
AfterSide path: risers placed before planting, then thicket shrubs and groundcovers grown in on pop-up zones.
Before
AfterDeck and pergola: a mulched bank becomes a private screen of indigenous trees and shrubs.
I’m Nicholas. I’ve spent around 25 years in ecological design and permaculture in southern Africa, working out how land and water fit together. Halcyon brings that thinking to the gardens of St Francis Bay.
You deal with me from the first consultation to the final handover.
Why Halcyon? (say HAL-see-un) It’s the genus of the Brown-hooded Kingfisher, a bird of our coastal thicket, and an old word for calm, settled days.
Water used wisely
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