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Free State National Botanical Garden; Type: Botanical garden: Location: Bloemfontein: Coordinates: Area: 70 hectares (170 acres) Established: 1965; 59 years ago () Administered by: South African National Biodiversity Institute: Hiking trails: 4: Species: 400: Website: Free State National Botanical Garden - SANBI
Anglo-Boer War Blockhouse, Drakensberg Botanical Garden, Harrismith This Anglo-Boer War blockhouse is situated on the town commonage of Harrismith, to the north-east of the town. In 1901 the British military authorities built a formidable system of blockhouses in the north-eastern Orange Free State.
In 1932 the well known Florisbad human cranium was discovered. In 1980 Florisbad was bought by the South African Government for research purposes and was placed under the administration of the National Museum, Bloemfontein. Freshford is one of the few houses of the Edwardian period that still exists in Bloemfontein. The house was designed and ...
A botanical garden is a place where plants, especially ferns, conifers and flowering plants, are grown and displayed for the purposes of research and education. This distinguishes them from parks and pleasure gardens where plants, usually with showy flowers, are grown for public amenity only.
Kirstenbosch is a botanical garden nestled at the eastern foot of Table Mountain in Cape Town. The garden is one of 10 National Botanical Gardens covering five of South Africa's six different biomes and administered by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI). Prior to 1 September 2004, the institute was known as the National ...
The Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden, previously known as the Witwatersrand National Botanical Garden, is a 300 hectares (3.0 km 2) botanical reserve in western Roodepoort near Johannesburg. It was formally established in 1982 as the Transvaal National Botanic Gardens, at which time it was the 14th of South Africa's National Botanical ...
Plaque commemorating the founder of the garden, Dr R. A. Dyer The Pretoria National Botanical Garden is one of South Africa's nine National Botanical Gardens. [1] The garden is wedged between Pretoria Road and Cussonia Avenue in Brummeria, in eastern Pretoria, Gauteng, and flanks a central rocky ridge that runs from east to west.
Arboretum is a suburb of the city of Bloemfontein in South Africa. References This page was last edited on 27 April 2022, at ...