Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Western Cape province

Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is world-renowned for the beauty and diversity of the Cape flora it displays and for the magnificence of its setting against the eastern slopes of Table Mountain.

It grows only indigenous South African plants in an estate that covers 528 hectares and supports a diverse fynbos flora and natural forest.

The cultivated garden, on 36 hectares, displays collections of South African plants, particularly those from the winter rainfall region of the country.

PHOTO SOURCE: Lanz von Horsten, courtesy of, and copyright, South Africa Tourism, a department of the government of South Africa, used with permission.

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