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The project was not derailed by all these challenges, and today a healthy population of E. verticillata is once more flowering in sheets of mauves and pinks, pollinated by …
Theme gardens were developed within the Garden, enabling visitors to follow, understand and remember the reasons for such groupings, rather than just the names of constituent plants. Honig created …
We have already noted the interest of royal gardens in our flora – an 18th century passion for plants that became a driving fashion in middle-class European homes in …
The rise of indigenous plant horticulture Kirstenbosch is deservedly famous for its splendid displays ofpincushion proteas such as the yellow Leucospermun reflexum var. luteum (front) and L. cordifolium (behind). …
David ‘Driver ’ Mclean retired after 52 years at Kirstenbosch – seen here with Brian Rycroft, Director from 1953 to 1983. The commitment of the Kirstenbosch team is no …