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Botanical gardens in South Africa


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South Africa is home to 9 National Botanical Gardens and a few local gardens that are situated throughout the country. The National Gardens are managed by the South African National Biodiversity Institute. Visit the extraordinary Kirstenbosch gardens in the heart of Cape Town. What makes this Garden so famous worldwide is that only indigenous plants are cultivated.

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Durban Botanic Gardens

Kwazulu Natal, Durban


The Durban Botanic Gardens (DBG) traces its origins to colonial times, when it was founded in 1849 for the introduction and trial of potentially useful commercial crops.


 
Free State National Botanical Garden

Free State, Bloemfontein


This garden, on the outskirts of Bloemfontein, spans a valley between picturesque dolerite koppies.


 
Garden Route Botanical Garden

Western Cape, George


The Garden Route Botanical Garden is located in George, the heart of the Garden Route and has become a conservation and environmental education hub for the Southern Cape of South Africa.


 
Hantam National Botanical Garden

Northern Cape, Nieuwoudtville


The pleasures of the Hantam National Botanical Garden are like expensive champagne, to be enjoyed slowly, taking in the delights of each sip and always leaving you wanting more.


 
Harold Porter National Botanical Gardens

Western Cape, Betty`s Bay


Nestled between the sea and the mountain side, where streams and reflection pools feed the soul, the Harold Porter National Botanical Garden in the heart of the Cape's richest fynbos region.


 
Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden

Western Cape, Worcester


The Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden is a truly unique garden. It cultivates and displays a wide variety of desert and semi-desert plants.


 
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden

Western Cape, Cape Town


Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is world-renowned for the beauty and diversity of the Cape flora it displays and for the magnificence of its setting against the eastern slopes of Table Mountain.


 
KwaZulu-Natal National Botanical Garden

Kwazulu Natal, Pietermaritzburg


The beautiful and tranquil KwaZulu-Natal National Botanical Garden specialize in the conservation of plants from the eastern region of South Africa and of rare and endangered species from elsewhere.


 
Lowveld National Botanical Garden

Mpumalanga, Nelspruit


The character of the Garden is shaped by the two main rivers that cut across it, namely the Crocodile River and the Nels River.


 
Pretoria National Botanical Garden

Gauteng, Pretoria


This 76 ha urban oasis is a pristine getaway situated in the eastern suburbs of South Africa’s administrative capital, Pretoria.


 
University of Stellenbosch Botanical Garden

Western Cape, Stellenbosch


Today the US Botanical Garden, a mostly undiscovered gem in the historical centre of Stellenbosch, gives joy to all its visitors.


 
Walter Sisulu National Botanical Gardens

Gauteng, Roodepoort


Against the backdrop of the magnificent Witpoortjie waterfall, this Garden (previously called the Witwatersrand National Botanical Garden) covers almost 300 hectares and consists of both landscaped and natural veld areas.




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Botanical gardens in Betty`s Bay - Botanical gardens in Bloemfontein - Botanical gardens in Cape Town - Botanical gardens in Durban -
Botanical gardens in George - Botanical gardens in Nelspruit - Botanical gardens in Nieuwoudtville - Botanical gardens in Pietermaritzburg -
Botanical gardens in Pretoria - Botanical gardens in Roodepoort - Botanical gardens in Stellenbosch - Botanical gardens in Worcester -

 


 

   

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