What we've been doing in 2008

What we did in 2007

13th October, Pics of Plant Sale - click here

13th October, Pics of Wildflower species display - click here

4th November, Bristol Botanic Garden visit - click here

5th November, Bristol Botanic Garden visit to Rock Art site - click here

Images of Courses & Events in 2006 - click here

March 8th, 6pm – 8pm

“Back to Varsity after 40 years: plant DNA and family trees” – talk by Margaret Herron

Margie Herron was the administrator for BEEP and the Southern Cape Herbarium while they were still at the George Museum and saw them through their move to the Moriarty Centre. Her dedication and quiet diplomacy plus passion for "teaching" in her own inimitable way was sorely missed when she left.

Margie then went back to UCT university to tackle an MSc in Phylogenetics & Biodiversity! Hence this talk about going back after 40 years and finding herself immersed in sequencing plant DNA in Jamesbrittenia. The talk was a great success with 30+ people attending.

April 7th, 9am – 3pm

Seaweeds at Gericke’s Point, Swartvlei Beach, Sedgefield with Connie Smits

16 participants enjoyed searching the pools & rocks for seaweed specimens. Over a picnic lunch Connie showed how to press and ID them. These specimens will be added to the Herbarium collection.

April 14th, 9am - 12pm

PLANT SALE in the Bot Garden - organiser Sheilagh Goedvolk with all the garden & Herbarium Volunteers & staff + much help from Newplant Nursery management & staff

The Plant sale was a great success and brought in a very respectable R23 000 profit for the Botanical Garden's depleted coffers.

4th to 6th May -

Erica Hunting Baviaans West area

Great fun and thanks to Tessa Horan for her help and refreshment on a very hot day! We found 4 Red data species and a total of 14 species

Erica Hunters below Ouposberg

Erica flocciflora a Red data species, endemic to Kouga / Baviaans West area, we also found a new locality for it

8th May 2007 - Farewell to Veary's & Burger's

We miss them terribly and their friendship and help is irreplaceable!

We have NO handymen left - in fact no men as regular volunteers left at all!!

Here is almost the whole team that came to tea - we even had Ningi Orfang there (A great Volunteer who has lived in Durbanville for the past 5 years alas!)

10th May -

Erica Workshop

Connie Smit has been working on the Erica Key for the Southern Cape for the last 7 years siince our first Erica Hunting Weekend in 2001! These workshops help to refine it and it now works really well!

Identifying seriously small Ericas is not easy!

Pulling the flowersto pieces to see the shape of the awns on the anthers

23rd May

Celebrating Linnaeus' 300th Birthday with tea & talk

We were even lucky enough to have a real live danish Botanist with us who gave further insights and some great stories about Linnaeus etc.

Doreen Court, until recently Curator of the S Cape herbarium, is a Fellow of the Linnaean Society and gave a great talk about that bodyand its work.

A nice crowd of people turned up and were fascinated by the posters and info various people gave about linnaeus and his amazing Taxonomic & Botanical work

6th June

Wilderness Heights School children do a Pot-Art design in the Maze

This was a practice for the Pot art they will do for the Wildflower Show & Plant sale in October.

Using all the old plastic flower pots that have collected up behind the Propagation shed in the Bot Garden, the children produced a wonderful & appropriate work of art in the maze

14th June & 5th July & 2nd August

Digital Photography

The one course planned turned into 3 and people are still wanting another! So they were definitely a success!

Hylton Herd lecturing a group mostly from SanParks and WCNC on 14th June

Kelvin Saunders helping at the course which he presented on 5th July

October 13th

FynbosFees - Plant Sale

This Spring Plant Sale was the best & most successful ever

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The garden was a hive of activity with people filling wheelbarrows with the plants they bought

Thousands of colourful plants were for sale - very few remained by midday!

October 13th

Wildflower Species Display

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Volunteers doing flower arrangements & arranging the Named species displays

November 4th

Friends of the Bristol Botanic Garden visit the Garden Route Botanical Garden

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Deputy Mayor Flip de Swardt, Yvette, Mandy, Nick Wray & Pat Davie planting a tree

Pat Davie, Nick Wray & Kobus Kruger planting a tree

November 5th

Bristol Botanic Garden Friends visit a Rock Art site in the Klein Langkloof

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The group admiring the Rock art and wondering what it all means!

Nick Wray admiring a giant specimen of Sarcostemma viminale at the Rock Art site