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Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden Map Download

editor — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 08:24:00 +0000

New directions in research Ninety years passed before Pearson’s vision of a well-equipped research facility at Kirstenbosch was realised in the Kirstenbosch Research Centre. Joseph Mathews, at right, and Alec Middlemost, Assistant Curator, admire the pond in the main lawn. Mathews published numerous articles on his horticultural research into growing indigenous plants, which, with taxonomic studies led by Compton, dominated the research programme at Kirstenbosch for its first seven decades. For the first 60-plus years of Kirstenbosch’s history, research was a poor cousin to the main focus of the Garden – indigenous plant horticulture. The Garden’s first Director, Harold Pearson,

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Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden Map With Counties

editor — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 08:56:00 +0000

The early 1990s witnessed an unprecedented growth in fundraising for Kirstenbosch. Contrary to the previous tradition of expecting government to finance every activity, the new leadership in the NBI, strongly supported by the Board, devoted much attention to the development of relationships with benefactors, new and old. Like Gold Fields of South Africa Ltd, the Anglo American Corporation and De Beers Consolidated Diamond Mines Ltd had their roots in the industrial and business legacy of Cecil John Rhodes. When they were approached in 1995 for a substantial grant of R3.5 million for Kirstenbosch, the response was positive and immediate. A

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