The Havens-Loresho

The Havens at Loresho, Nairobi

Category: Residential Estate Landscaping

Location: Loresho, Nairobi

Project Overview:

The Havens at Loresho is a gated residential community of elegant, European-style villas set along a gently sloping cobblestone avenue. Urban Green Landscapes worked on the estate’s communal landscape: the shared driveways, roadside planting beds and feature planters that every resident and visitor passes through. The goal was a lush, tropical streetscape that softens the estate’s hard surfaces, frames each home’s entrance and makes arriving at The Havens feel like coming home to a private garden.

Design Approach:

The design layers plants by height. Groundcovers sit along the kerbs, colourful mid-height shrubs come next, and tall palms, heliconias and climbers rise behind them against the boundary walls. Contrasting foliage carries the colour, with deep burgundy cordylines set against bright greens and variegated grasses. The planting stays vibrant all year without relying only on seasonal flowers.

Climbers and creepers cover the estate’s boundary and retaining walls. They turn plain concrete into green walls that add privacy, cool the space and give a sense of enclosure. Neatly kerbed beds line both sides of the driveway and lead the eye downhill toward the views of the Loresho tree canopy.

Key Features:

Curved stone-clad feature planter: A raised planter built around a mature tree, finished in dark stacked-stone cladding. It’s planted with Monstera, bromeliads, ornamental pineapple and an ivy groundcover, which makes a striking centrepiece at the junction.

Tropical avenue planting: Continuous kerbed beds along the cobblestone driveway, planted with heliconias, bird-of-paradise, areca palms and red cordylines.

Living green walls: Ivy and flowering climbers, including the blue-flowered Thunbergia vine, cover the perimeter and retaining walls.

Layered groundcovers and edging: Purple ajuga, variegated liriope and spreading groundcovers give clean, low-maintenance edges along the paving.

Gate and entrance framing: Each villa’s entrance is set off by flowering hibiscus, foliage shrubs and coordinated planting next to the gate pillars and lamp posts.

Plant Palette Highlights:

Monstera deliciosa, Heliconia, Strelitzia, Areca palm, Cordyline (red varieties), bromeliads, ornamental pineapple, English ivy, Thunbergia grandiflora, Hibiscus, Ajuga reptans, variegated Liriope, aloe and bamboo.

The Result:

The estate now has a cohesive green streetscape. The planting feels mature and full, complements the architecture, and gives The Havens a calm, resort-like character from the gate to the last villa.