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Tour
the Karoo Desert NBG
Entrance and Parking Area
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| The impressive entrance to the Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden
is crafted out of local Malmesbury shale. The rock work, visible to
the left and right as you enter the Garden, was done by the Garden's
staff. This area is a blaze of colour in spring with the cheerful
orange hues of various Namaqualand daisies beckoning visitors to the
main gate. |
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colourful spring time plants include the mesembryanthemums, otherwise
known as mesembs or vygies. When massed together, their bright metallic
coloured flowers give an impressive display. |
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The lower parking area can accommodate as many as 35 vehicles and
2 coaches. In this area one will find the graceful tree aloes, Aloe
barberae. They are the tallest of the tree aloes found anywhere
in the world. These aloes, also known as Baines aloe, can grow as
tall as 20 metres under ideal conditions.
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