Buchu Garden
This small and highly aromatic section of the Garden is a mass
of flowers through late winter and spring and the air hangs heavy
with the scent of the leaves on a warm day. Buchu is the colloquial
name for some of the indigenous rutaceae, Agathosma species,
Diosma species, Adenandra species, and Acmadenia
species.
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 Fynbos
Demonstration Garden
A new demonstration garden that shows the visitor how to use fynbos
plants, i.e. ericas, proteas, pincushions, restios and bulbs, to
create a garden that provides colour and attracts wildlife. The
display illustrates correct planting procedures and maintenance
practices and also gives ideas on how to combine the plants. Within
the Demonstration Garden is a Wildlife Garden, as well as a section
that displays some of the latest fynbos cultivars and hybrids.
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The
Erica Garden displays approximately. 260 of the over 700 species
of erica (heaths) found in South Africa. Ericas provide colour and
interest throughout the year, but the peak flowering season for
most of them is during spring and summer.