2018 Programme of Wednesday Talks at Kirstenbosch
Artists/Speakers: Various artists
Contact: Cathy Abbott: 021 465 6440 or Email: cathya@wol.co.za.
Entrance charge: The Wednesday talks are free, but Garden entry fees apply.
How to book: Booking is not necessary
Event venue: Richard Crowie Hall (gate 2).
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 24
Jan |
EDWIN RYE
BBC award winning gardener |
Spectacular National Trust gardens and others |
| 07 Feb | MARIJKE HONIG Landscape designer |
Waterwise gardening where are we ? What is the future of the garden
|
| 21
Feb |
PAUL PAARMAN
Landscape/ ecologist |
Grey Water |
| 07
Mar |
ROSALIND SPEARS The English Swallow |
Darlington Hall, Devon
|
| 04
Apr |
Carol Poole Manager: Biodiversity Research Projects, SANBI |
The KAROO BIOGAPS Project |
| 18
Apr |
MIKE BRUTON
Author |
The Annotated Old Fourlrgs: The story of the coelacanth
|
| 2
May |
BETH HUNT AND PHOTOGRAPHERS Author |
Hermanus |
| 16
May |
CHERISE VILJOEN Horticulturist, Kirstenbosch |
Edible indiginious plants |
| 30
May |
RICHARD PEIRSE Author/ Wildlife Campaigner |
Nicole – the shark |
| 13
Jun |
DR EUGENE MOLL
Environmentalist |
TOKAI – the other perspective |
| 27
Jun |
DAVID DAVIDSON
Designer |
Chelsea Glimpses from 1994 – 2017 |
| 11
Jul |
RICHARD ARM Horticulturist / Curator – Manager, Vergelen Garden |
Vergelegen Garden |
| 25
Jul |
KLAUS Curator, George Botanical Garden |
Garden Route Botanical Garden
|
| 08
Aug |
EVE DUNNELL Chaiman, U3A – Cape Town |
The tea route to China |
| 22
Aug |
SUE BUCHNAN
Author/environmentalist |
Robert Jacob Gordon 1743 – 1795: Soldier, Explorer and ‘Man of Science’ |
| 05
Sep |
Mary van Blommestein Curator Irma Stern Musuem and UCT Collection |
The world of Maria Sibylla Merian, 17th century artist and naturalist |
| 19
Sep |
ROD SAUDERS Silverhill Seeds |
Elsie Esterhuysen -her life and some of the plants she collected |
| 03
Oct |
JAMES FISK
Owner Fisk Horticuture |
California Dreaming: The garden and plants of California
|
| 17
Oct |
TBA |
|
| 31
Oct |
WERNER VOIGT Curator Karoo Desert Garden |
Succulents,Vol2 |
| 01
Nov |
CLARE BURGESS
Landscape Architect |
Travels with a landscape architect – Art in the Landscape |
| 14
Nov |
PETER STEYN Birdlover/Author |
Memories of a Birdwatcher
|
| 28
Dec |
MARIANNE ALEXANDER
Journalist / Author |
Garden in the Western Cape
|