botanical gardens va Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/botanical-gardens-va Wed, 11 Apr 2018 20:11:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden Trip Advisor http://toursmaps.com/kirstenbosch-national-botanical-garden-trip-advisor.html http://toursmaps.com/kirstenbosch-national-botanical-garden-trip-advisor.html#respond Thu, 14 Jun 2018 18:48:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=246691 Kirstenbosch offers shaded habitats for many forest-floor species, including 40 species of Streptocarpus, although it is mostly a summer-rainfall group and suffers from the hot, dry days of the Cape summer. Similarly, the genus Clivia, or Forest Lily, comes from South Africa’s summer-rainfall area. But John Winter has built up a valuable living collection of the genus, including the first breeding stock of the rare, winter-rainfall, and aptly named Clivia mirabilis. This species was discovered only in 2000 in a shaded but dry valley near Nieuwoudtville, in the winter-rainfall region of the Northern Cape. Pioneer species such as the Keurboom,

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