A Horticultural Study Trip To South Africa A Month At Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden and in The Northern Drakensberg Mountains October 2011 Fig 1: Female Sunbird on Melianthus flower By Ned Lomax 1 Table of Contents Introduction..........................................................................................................................................5 Aims and Objectives........................................................................................................................7 Kirstenbosch National Botanic Garden................................................................................................8 The Restio Garden.........................................................................................................................10 The Protea Garden.........................................................................................................................12 The Erica Garden...........................................................................................................................15 The Cycad Amphitheatre...............................................................................................................17 Table Mountain Nature Reserve.........................................................................................................19 Table Mountain Nature Reserve....................................................................................................19 Collecting Trip to Cloof Wine Estate, Darling..............................................................................21 Royal Natal National Park..................................................................................................................23 The Upper Berg..............................................................................................................................24 The Little Berg...............................................................................................................................26 Conclusion..........................................................................................................................................28 Summary of Costs..............................................................................................................................30 Bibliography.......................................................................................................................................31 2 Index of Figures Fig 1: Female Sunbird on Melianthus flower.......................................................................................1 Fig 2: The School Room at Glendurgan Garden..................................................................................4 Fig 3: Tresco Abbey Gardens...............................................................................................................5 Fig 4: Protea burchellii.........................................................................................................................6 Fig 5: Erica verticillata.........................................................................................................................6 Fig 6: Stelitzia regia..............................................................................................................................7 Fig 7: The Amphitheatre, Royal Natal National Park..........................................................................8 Fig 8: View of Table Mountain from The Cycad Amphitheatre...........................................................9 Fig 9: Rhodocoma capensis female flower........................................................................................12 Fig 10: Rhodocoma capensis male flower..........................................................................................12 Fig 11: Ischyrolepsis subverticillata...................................................................................................13 Fig 12: Thamnochortus sp.................................................................................................................13 Fig 13: Elegia ebracteata....................................................................................................................13 Fig 14: Cannomois virgata.................................................................................................................14 Fig 15: Cultivar of Leucospermum cordifolium................................................................................17 Fig 16: Leucadendron argenteum.......................................................................................................17 Fig 17: Mimetes cucullatus................................................................................................................17 Fig 18: Seed of Leucadendron argenteum..........................................................................................19 Fig 19: Seed of Protea roupelliae.......................................................................................................19 Fig 20: Open flower of Protea rubropillosa........................................................................................19 Fig 21: Flower bud of Protea rubropillosa.........................................................................................19 Fig 22: Erica urna-viridis....................................................................................................................22 Fig 23: Erica cerinthoides...................................................................................................................22 Fig 24: Erica curviflora......................................................................................................................23 Fig 25: Erica glandulosa.....................................................................................................................23 Fig 26: Erica oatesii var. oatesii.........................................................................................................23 Fig 27: Erica discolor subsp. speciosa................................................................................................23 Fig 28: The Cycad Amphitheatre........................................................................................................24 Fig 29: Encephalatos woodii..............................................................................................................27 Fig 30: Germination of Cycad seed....................................................................................................27 Fig 31: Male cones of Encephalartos friderici-guilielmi....................................................................27 Fig 32: View from the summit of Table Mountain.............................................................................28 Fig 33: Cunonia capensis....................................................................................................................29 3 Fig 34: Podocarpus latifolius..............................................................................................................29 Fig 35: Protea cynaroides...................................................................................................................29 Fig 36: Adenandera cf. multiflora......................................................................................................30 Fig 37: Protea scolymocephala...........................................................................................................30 Fig 38: Serruria decipiens...................................................................................................................30 Fig 39: Diastella proteoides ...............................................................................................................30 Fig 40: Cloof Wine Estate, Darling....................................................................................................30 Fig 41: Serruria fasciflora...................................................................................................................30 Fig 42: Gladiolus meliusculus............................................................................................................30 Fig 43: The Policeman's Helmet, Royal Natal National Park............................................................31 Fig 44: Protea caffra...........................................................................................................................32 Fig 45: Cyrtanthus flanaganii.............................................................................................................32 Fig 46: Dierama dracomontana..........................................................................................................32 Fig 47: Moraea spathulata..................................................................................................................32 Fig 48: Helichrysum retortoides.........................................................................................................32 Fig 49: Aloe polyphylla......................................................................................................................33 Fig 50: Moraea huttonii......................................................................................................................33 Fig 51: View of Thukela George........................................................................................................33 Fig 52: Greyia sutherlandii.................................................................................................................34