Admission Fees
Adult: R40
Student: R20
Pensioner: Free entry on Tuesdays
Child: R10
Botanical Society members: 10% discount
SANBI annual membership fees (excluding special events)
- R800 per adult
- R400 per child
- R600 per student
Founding of the garden
The Kwelera National Botanical Garden (NBG) in East London is South Africa’s 10th national botanical garden and the first to be established in the Eastern Cape.
It encompasses the Kwelera Nature Reserve, an important biodiversity corridor of the region and of a developed section that is to be built on 10.48 ha adjacent land not yet open to the public. Unique factors include the rich biodiversity, scenic and heritage features.
With estuarine, riverine, vegetated dune systems and history of human activity this garden reflects the natural beauty the Wild Coast region has to offer.
The Kwelera National Botanical Garden has been twice gazetted – as the Kwelera Nature Reserve (KNR) forming part of the East London Coast Nature Reserves under the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act (NEM:PAA), as well as a national botanical garden under the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act (NEM:BA).
The Kwelera National Botanical Garden (KwNBG) was declared on 25 July 2014 and officially opened by the DEA Minister in September 2014.
Kwelera NBG development fact sheet
Latest developments are:
- The declaration of the intention to declare the acquired 10ha farmland portion purchased by SANBI in March 2016 as part of the Kwelera National Botanical Garden. This 10ha portion will be used as the landscaped/cultivated area of the garden where most of the garden’s infrastructure will be built.
- Appointment of Environmental Assessment Consultants beginning October 2017 to undertake a basic assessment process for the proposed infrastructure developments proposed for the reserve/natural portion of the garden as well as those proposed for the 10ha/cultivated portion of the garden.
- Appointment of Landscape Architects beginning October 2017 to design the landscaped portion of the 10ha.
A public meeting was held on 06 February 2018. This was the formal platform for all public comments regarding the proposed developments.
Both the EIA process and landscape plan, running concurrently, should be completed by Mid-2018.
Furthermore, we hope to see some civil works commencing in the 2018/2019 Financial year. The garden will be developed in phases, beginning with phase one in the reserve portion of the garden after the EIA process has been finalised. The 10ha portion is also planned to be fenced during this period.
TARIFFS 2023-2024
DESCRIPTION | SIZE POT | SELLING PRICE | |
1 | Helichrysum cymosum | 2kg bags | R50.00 |
2 | Adromiscus cristatus | 2kg bags | R45.00 |
3 | Adromiscus sp. | 2kg bags | R45.00 |
4 | Adromiscus sp | 4kg bags | R50.00 |
5 | Adromiscus sp. | 2kg bags | R45.00 |
6 | Adromiscus sp. | 4kg bags | R50.00 |
7 | Adromiscus tracanthus | 4kg bags | R55.00 |
8 | Agapanthus africana | 4 kg | R65.00 |
9 | Albuca nelsonnii | 2 kg bags | R50.00 |
10 | Aleolanthus parvifolium | 1kg bags | R35.00 |
11 | Aloe aborescens | 25 cm pots | R50.00 |
12 | Aloe sp. | 10 cm pot | R35.00 |
13 | Aloe sp | 20 cm pots | R55.00 |
14 | Aloe striata | 30 cm pots | R65.00 |
15 | Aloe striata | 2kg bags | R50.00 |
16 | Aristea ecklonii | 4kg bags | R45.00 |
17 | Bulbine frutescens | 2kg bags | R40.00 |
18 | Bulbine abysinica | 4kg bags | R55.00 |
19 | Bulbine sp | 4kg bags | R55.00 |
20 | Bulbine latifolius | 4kg bags | R55.00 |
21 | Bulbine narcissifolia | 4kg bags | R55.00 |
22 | Capobrotus edulis | 4kg bags | R50.00 |
23 | Chrysanthemoides monilifera | 4kg bags | R55.00 |
25 | Cotyledon obicularis | 20cm pots | R55.00 |
26 | Crassula perfoliata | 2kg bags | R55.00 |
27 | Crassula sp. | 2kg bags | R50.00 |
28 | Crassula Multicava | 18 cm pots | R45.00 |
29 | Crassula muscosa | 4kg bags | R50.00 |
30 | Crassula ovata | 4kg bags | R55.00 |
31 | Crassula perfoliata | 4kg bags | R50.00 |
32 | Crassula sp silver | 4kg bags | R50.00 |
33 | Crassula capitela | 2kg bags | R55.00 |
34 | Crassula sp. | 2kg bags | R40.00 |
35 | Crassula sp. | 2kg bags | R35.00 |
36 | Currio crassulifolius | 2kg bags | R50.00 |
37 | Dietes bicolor | 10kg bags | R70.00 |
38 | Eriocephalus africanus | 4kg bags | R50.00 |
39 | Euryops linifolius | 2kg bags | R40.00 |
40 | Geranium sp. | 2kg bags | R 40.00 |
41 | Haemanthus albiflora | 10kg bags | R60.00 |
42 | Haworhia sp | 2kg bags | R50.00 |
43 | Helichrysum populifolium | 4kg bags | R65.00 |
44 | Helichrysum limelight | 2kg bags | R45.00 |
45 | Helichrysum sp. | 4kg bags | R40.00 |
46 | Helichrysum sp. | 4kg bags | R45.00 |
47 | Hypoxis villosa | 25 cm pots | R 55.00 |
48 | Kniphofia uvaria | 10 cm pots | R30.00 |
49 | Kniphofia uvaria | 10kg bags | R50.00 |
50 | Lampranthus sp. | 2kg bags | R35.00 |
51 | Aloe liniaris | 18cm pots | R40.00 |
52 | Metalasia muricata | 25 cm pots | R55.00 |
53 | Metalasia muricata | 2kg bags | R55.00 |
54 | Metarungia galpinni | 4kg bags | R55.00 |
56 | Perlagonium grossularoides | 2kg bags | R50.00 |
57 | Perlagonium peltatum | 2kg bags | R50.00 |
58 | Plectranthus ecklonii | 2kg bags | R40.00 |
59 | Plumbago auriculata | 2kg bags | R40.00 |
60 | Portulacaria afra | 18 cm pots | R45.00 |
61 | Salvia africana Lutea | 10kg bags | R60.00 |
62 | Sanserveria sp. | 20cm pots | R50.00 |
63 | Searsia crenata | 2kg bags | R50.00 |
64 | Senecio radicens | 15cm pots | R40.00 |
65 | Senseveria sp | 20cm pots | R50.00 |
66 | Stachys aethiopica | 2kg bags | R45.00 |
67 | Strelitzia reginae | 4kg bags | R60.00 |
68 | Tecomaria capensis | 2kg bags | R50.00 |
69 | Tulbaghia violacea | 4kg bags | R50.00 |
70 | Watsonia pilansii (Orange) | 2kg bags | R40.00 |
Address
Kwelera National Botanical Garden
Plot FME 00736
Kwelera Road
Kwelera
5259
Important document
General enquiries:
Nomama Mei
Curator: Kwelera National Botanical Garden
Tel.: +27 43 737 0061/0071
E-mail: kweleranbg@sanbi.org.za