Most botanical gardens in the world couldn’t do justice to a big project or become a major attraction if they were to concentrate on local flora only. So, they also present other plants of interest, comfortable in the climatic and other conditions of their situation.

The Cape Floristic Region in the south of the country is so diverse and rich in endemism that Kirstenbosch can focus on plants of its region and still present more than visitors can familiarise themselves with in a month of Sundays.

The other National Botanical and Zoological Gardens of South Africa have been conceived and developed mainly by SANBI in accordance with this concept, each focusing on the flora and some fauna of its geographic, ecological and climatic region. The archipelago of floral conservation, research and presentation havens that resulted, forms a unique part of the nation’s offering on the tourism front.

Few South Africans have been to all of them, but people increasingly target also the less known ones that represent the look and feel of memorable local niches of nature.

In Covid times, the open spaces of these large gardens are among the safer, attractive places available for recreation (Rycroft, 1975; Wikipedia).

Also check the Botanical Gardens Link on this Site.