Elgin Open Gardens, Botanical tours and fynbos in Bot River (Botrivier), Elgin Valley, Grabouw, Houw Hoek and Villiersdorp.

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Phone: +27 (0)21 844 0605
A/H: +27 (0)82 320 2060

With eighty-seven red data plant species, the Green Mountain Eco Route is a prime destination for botanical tours. A highly threatened vegetation type, renosterveld, constitutes as much as 5000 ha of the Groenlandberg Conservancy. Renosterveld is exceptionally rich in plant species and many of these plants are indigenous to the area. Choose from a variety of flower tours & trails for a unique experience in the heart of the Cape Floral Kingdom with the exceptional Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve and Hottentots Holland Nature Reserve.

Make sure not to miss the Elgin Open Gardens in October/November, when private gardens open to the public during two weekends only.

Botanical tours Guided Tours

Tri Active Events Management
Oak Valley Wines

Self-Drive Options

Spring Open Gardens
Goedvertrouw Wine Estate and B&B
Wildekrans Country House

Guided Tours

Tri Active Events Management

Tri Active

Tri Active takes you on a journey that explores the beauty of the Elgin Valley and the Green Mountain Eco Route with its endless mountain peaks and valleys.

Choose from a variety of guided 4x4, quad bike and mountain bike excursions as well as guided nature walks, which are designed in interest groups such as Wine & Game, Green Mountain Valley, Biodiversity Wine Route, Brandy & Wine, Flowers & Fynbos, Around the Groenlandberg etc.

Cany and Anton Bugler
Tel: +27 21 844 0975
Fax: +27 21 844 0970
Cell: +27 83 456 2181
Email: info@triactive.co.za
Website: www.triactive.co.za

Oak Valley

Oak Valley Flowers, which is affiliated to the Green Mountain Eco Route is the largest producer of fresh-cut flowers outside Gauteng.
Oak Valley Flowers supplies top florists, hotels and Woolworths stores in the western and southern Cape.

Flowers grown include chrysanthemums, alstroemeria, oriental lilies, asiatic lilies, St.Joseph lilies, gladiolae, irises, tulips, stattice, peony and greenery.

Tel: 021 859 3245
Fax: 021 859 4485
Website: www.oakvalley.co.za
Email: flowers@oak-valley.co.za

Spring Open Gardens

The following properties showcase their gardens during the annual Spring Open Gardens, which takes place throughout Elgin each year.

Botanical Tours
around the Groenlandberg

With eighty-seven red data plant species, the Green Mountain Eco Route is a prime destination for botanical tours. A highly-threatened vegetation type, renosterveld, constitutes as much as 5000 ha of the Groenlandberg Conservancy.

Renosterveld is exceptionally rich in plant species and many of these plants are indigenous to the area or seriously threatened.

A large portion of the conservancy falls within the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve, which is the first internationally recognized UNESCO biosphere in South Africa. Kogelberg Nature Reserve is often considered the heart of the Cape Floral Kingdom, because of the exceptional quality of its fynbos.

on the Van der Stel Pass

Situated on the Van der Stel Pass between Botrivier and Villiersdorp, this magical world of flowers and birds surrounds the old homestead and affords a view down the valley gazing over the geese in the pond, the hand-reared lambs, piglets and cattle.

Every year Elreda Pillman showcases her exquisite country garden in the Elgin Open
Gardens weekends.

Make sure you stay for one of Elreda’s homemade meals whether it is for breakfast, lunch or dinner. In summer, you’ll be served on the stoep and after hours of eating, drinking and being mesmerised you’ll struggle to leave which is okay as there are 3 double-bed en-suite rooms in the house. In winter you will be seated cosily in the tasting room or in the homestead’s lounge alongside the fireplace.

Don’t leave without a block of farm-churned butter, a loaf of freshly baked bread and a case of hand-bottled, hand-labeled wine.

Tel/Fax: 028 284 9769 (Elreida)

Wildekrans Country House
in the Houw Hoek Valley
Historic nineteenth-century homestead with a rambling country garden in a dramatic mountain setting.
Tel: 028 284 9827 Fax: 028 284 9624 Website: www.wildekrans.co.za Email: wildekrans@kingsley.co.za