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Botanical Garden in the City

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Ann Kenney (68), the old lady, not wrong. Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is beautiful, even when winter arrived at this June. Or, what if my comments came in the summer. What is clear, the situation is not as much interest in the summer, Kirstenbosch served to his guest of South African flora diversity of views.
At least once in three months I came here. I always wanted to enjoy it.
- Ann Kenney

"At least three months, I came here. I always wanted to enjoy it, "said Kenney, who lived in Arcadia Haven nursing homes in the area of Old Age Mowbray, Cape Town.

Located at the south foot of Table Mountain, Kirstenbosch is part of the city of Cape Town. The Cape Town itself practically around the mountains which stretch from the northeast to the southwest. However, because settlements are densely located in the northwest to the north of Table Mountain, Kirstenbosch is in making us as if on the outskirts of Cape Town.

Kenney did not care about her fellow residents of nursing homes choose to stay at home. "They're lazy go-go, while I need the activity. So, I go alone, "said Kenney.

As a retiree, he has a quota free transport to Kirstenbosch which falls every Tuesday. In just 30 minutes, Kenney can reach this beautiful garden without having to rely on anyone. "I do not want to bother my child, let alone his stay in Fish Hoek (about an hour away from nursing homes Kenney)," said Kenney, who always see her only daughter on Saturday with a new husband and children 4.5 months.

Ann Kenney was just one of dozens of grandmothers and grandfathers who enliven the Kirstenbosch. Landscape grandfather with his grandchild, his son, alone or in pairs, since the entrance was an area of 528 hectares. Of the acreage of that, the park was developed specifically covers approximately 36 hectares.

They look really enjoy although some have hobbled with a cane, wheelchair, or electric motors. Three grandmothers sat on a bench near Fragrance Garden as he talked, while the number of pairs of grandparents to enjoy cakes and tea in the Tearoom near gate 2.

A grandfather repeatedly chose to sit on long wooden benches around the park there are a lot of the time his grandson who was about eight years of running. Ann Kenney himself chose to sit on the edge of the pond in the Garden Peninsula area only with a can of soda. Meanwhile, the waitress at the shop selling trinkets belonging Botanical Society at the gate of a virtually all aged over 60 years.

On the other hand, visitors who did not lose a lot of Kirstenbosch are children ranging from infants to elementary school age. Some come along with parents, others berombongan with his adviser who later chose to sit on the rocks to do some questions and answers.

Three cruise lines

Kirstenbosch is too broad to be explored as a whole in just one day. Therefore, outside the flower garden with a number of themes, the manager made three-point botanical garden that includes exploration of the mountains back of Table Mountain. The shortest path is approximately 1.5 miles Trail Stinkwood which can be taken approximately 45 minutes. Line medium, Yellowwood Trail, whose length is 3 miles with travel time of 1.5 hours. The last and longest, 7.7 kilometers, is the Silvertree Trail which can be completed in three hours.

However, actually down a flower garden covering 36 hectares, just take a long time, especially if you want to observe the various plants. This flower park is divided into 27 themes interesting. Fragrance Garden, for example, presents a variety of plants with texture and smell are rare.

Meanwhile, in the Useful Plants, visitors can find many plants that are useful for making tea, coffee, dye cloth, rope, baskets, and various traditional medicines, such as headaches, colds, coughs, and colds. However, a statement was also issued in the area, reminding visitors that medicinal plants may contain chemicals that are harmful to certain body conditions.

Plant named Leonotis leonurus Laniaceace included in the family-and is known as lion's ear or, in English, called the wild-dagga-called ordinary smoked or chewed like tobacco by the Khoisan, a native of Africa. These plants provide narcotic effects for its users. However, in South Africa, it is widely used as traditional medicine to heal the wounds in the skin, as affected by insect stings, snake, scorpion, stiff neck, cramps, coughs and colds, bronchitis, asthma, headaches, epilepsy, and bleeding.

Since the beginning of the man of stone, this region has actually occupied, marked by the discovery of a stone hand axes, but only around 2000 years ago Khoi Khoi tribe inhabiting it. The presence of Europeans, who landed at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652, changed everything. Jan van Riebeeck who led the occupation of VOC for the South African region as a location using Kirstenbosch areas of agriculture, and even made a sort of insulation from the wild walnut crop in 1670 to banish the Khoi Khoi tribes.

For over 200 years in the east and north of Table Mountain planted with native trees, such as stinkwood, yellowwood, and wild olives, the results were used to make the building or to the fireplace. The area that became agriculture and forestry was later bought by Cecil John Rhodes in 1859 to become the botanical gardens, which is then handed to the government.


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