Welcome to the Garden Route Botanical Garden, George.

The Garden Route Botanical Garden is located in George, the heart of the Garden Route and has become a conservation and environmental education hub for the Southern Cape of South Africa.

We are open every day of the year from sun-up to sun-down and entrance is free! We do appreciate it if you visit our office during the week during business hours so we can welcome you and get you to sign our visitor's book.

The Cape Floral Kingdom is one of the richest, smallest and most threatened floral kingdoms on Earth.

The Garden Route Botanical Garden & Southern Cape Herbarium, therefore, have a vital role to play nationally and globally in the conservation and study of what is as rich a diversity of plant life in this area, as anywhere else in the Cape Floral Kingdom. In addition the garden's position at the heart of the Garden Route, an area of the country named after its fantastic flora and famous worldwide for the beauty of its natural environment, makes it ideally suited to this vital role.

As the general population becomes isolated from the natural environment they become increasingly unaware of how their daily lives impact on the environment; how much mankind relies on the health of that very fragile environment to sustain all human and animal life on earth.

NB - we are experiencing a bad patch as far as securing a sustainable future for the Botanical Garden

"The Herbarium and the Botanical Garden have become far too valuable and have used up far too much effort and self-sacrifice, to be allowed to wither away now!"

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