Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden has not participated in the RHS Chelsea Flower Show for six consecutive years, a ...

Cape Flora SA has snaffled a golden medal for South Africa this week at the acclaimed 2024 Chelsea Flower Show for its fine fynbos ...

About 8km from Stanford on the R343 to Gansbaai in the Western Cape is a ... walk crosses Flower Valley, where trained harvesting teams can be seen collecting wild fynbos for making bouquets ...

The arrival of spring in the Western Cape ... millions of small flowers are transforming dry, usually barren valleys and fields into miraculous carpets of colour. And the Cape fynbos, in all ...

Some 680 species, many of them found nowhere else, occur in the Cape Floristic ... of the flowers. An informative introduction explores the biology, pollination and distribution of fynbos ericas.

A carpet of flowers fill a field in the Postberg Nature Reserve in the West Coast National Park. Photograph by Paul Bruins, Getty Images On the Western Cape, two months out of every year (August ...

Conservation of the Western Cape's unique fynbos vegetation ... linked to the sustainable use of these fynbos species include the wild flower trade, tourism and recreational opportunities, the ...

South Africa’s gold medal-winning showcase at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show offers a vibrant celebration of fynbos in ...

A reference to the plants prolific in the Western Cape, the new cottages draw on this landscape for inspiration. A subtle indigenous plant, fynbos is delicate and understated rather than ...

Plants such as sour figs and ice plants, with their bright and colourful blooms, are found across the Western Cape and are delightful additions to a garden. Fynbos ... left of the flower heads ...

It is an honour to represent South Africa and showcase the diversity of the Cape Floral Kingdom,” said Goliath. Fynbos flowers are one of the Western Cape’s biggest income-generating exports.