The gardens include an English country garden and tea shoppe set amidst pathways, wooden bridges, streams and lakes. The Chimanimani are big, rugged peaks, the highest reaching to over 2400 metres. There are four ranges of roughly parallel summits, trending north to south. The first two lie between the village of Chimanimani and the border. Being of a different geology they are round, more gentle and mantled in vegetation but still big enough to test the strength, stamina and determination of many.
Small rivulets are everywhere and flowers too.
On the higher slopes, protea and everlasting flowers will be remembered as will the thick growths of giant erica with its evocative 'pencilwood' smell. The range is deeply incised with heavily forested gorges where wild rivers tumble over cataracts. In the wilder reaches there is game. Sable and eland still exist in herds. In the thicker, low-lying forests, there are still elephant whilst on the high grassy plateaus there is a range of smaller antelope as well as leopard, baboon and porcupine.