Botanical garden Pretoria Photo: Botanical garden Pretoria

National Botanical garden Pretoria is divided into two parts – southern and Northern. Running through the garden route trails provide visitors the opportunity to get acquainted with the amazing vegetation that grows on the Peninsula and brought from other continents.

Fifty hectares of the total area devoted almost exclusively South African plants. Here you can see all kinds of colors and 50% of the species of trees growing on the territory of the Republic of South Africa. This Botanical garden offers visitors the opportunity to learn and have an understanding of various ecosystems, such as savanna, forest, tropics, subtropics, etc. the Garden is home to more than 198 species of birds, some reptiles and small mammals, such as the South African antelope Ducer. The garden has total area of 76 hectares lies on the slope of the ridge. Its territory is rich in wetlands, forests of trees, a large variety of succulents.

Originally Pretoria Botanical garden was known as the Transylvanian National Botanical garden, established in 1946 as a research centre, which was closed to the public until 1984. You can visit it only with a special agreement, as this was primarily a research centre under the guidance of scientific and Botanical research Institute, founded in 1903 in conjunction with the National Botanic gardens, Kirstenbosch.

In the Botanical garden Pretoria you can see a rich collection of medicinal plants, several species of aloe, succulents, cycads. You can walk on the green lawns and relax in the shade of the trees. Amazing exotic flowers enchant everyone, shimmering with all the colors of the rainbow: red, purple, pink, orange and white. Flowerbeds with Namaqualand chamomile, shimmering from orange to white tones attract the birds that especially partial to the shoots of these plants and often eat them before they start to bloom. This time of year, the gray antelope Duker sometimes wanders into the far part of the garden in search of food. They feed on leaves, flowers and fruits, and natural vegetation in the spring is not enough and they are fed by the workers of the garden. Unique alley is a beautiful flowering trees Wisteria Bolusanthus elegant, planted in 1946 on the site of "medicinal plants".

Near the artificial waterfall is a cozy concert venue, tea garden and a small restaurant where you can relax a bit, listen to music and enjoy the fragrant scent of flowering plants.

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Botanical garden Pretoria