Happy By Nature at Kirstenbosch

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Happy By Nature at Kirstenbosch HAPPY BY NATURE at Kirstenbosch - Indigenous Nursery and Botanical Studio. Workshops, garden design, installation & maintenance too.

Enjoy a wide range of indigenous indoor & outdoor plants, as well as locally made botanical themed products & gifts.

WILD, RARE, AND HAPPY BY NATURE 🌸🌿Meet Serruria aemula and Serruria fucifolia! These rare Cape Town fynbos beauties are ...
15/10/2026

WILD, RARE, AND HAPPY BY NATURE 🌸🌿

Meet Serruria aemula and Serruria fucifolia! These rare Cape Town fynbos beauties are making a comeback, and they need our help to keep thriving.

Invasive alien plants are crowding out local species, taking away the sunlight and soil nutrients our indigenous flora need to flourish.

📍 DISCOVER THEM AT HAPPY BY NATURE:

Pop by HAPPY BY NATURE (at Kirstenbosch Gate 2) to explore rare indigenous fynbos, learn how to protect local biodiversity, and bring native plants into your own garden! 🌱✨

❓ QUICK FYNBOS QUIZ!
Can you spot the intruder? Which of these is NOT native to South Africa?

A) Sugarbush (Protea repens)

B.) Port Jackson Willow (Acacia saligna)

C) Spiderhead (Serruria aemula)

(Drop your guess A, B, or C in the comments! 👇)

🌿 We're celebrating 2 years of HAPPY BY NATURE at Kirstenbosch!🎉And we'd love you to join us!This Saturday, 17 October, ...
12/10/2026

🌿 We're celebrating 2 years of HAPPY BY NATURE at Kirstenbosch!🎉

And we'd love you to join us!

This Saturday, 17 October, we're celebrating with a day of FREE talks and workshops, an indigenous plant sale, giveaways and a chance to come together, share knowledge and celebrate our connection with nature.

We've put together a programme featuring passionate experts sharing their knowledge of indigenous plants, gardening and conservation.

🌿 9:00 | Welcoming Ceremony

🌿 9:30 | Creating your First Indigenous Healing Garden
A hands-on introduction to healing plants, planting and propagation. Perfect for beginners of all ages. All materials provided.

🌿 11:30 | Waterwise Gardens
Get your garden ready for a hot, dry summer with practical tips on plant selection, irrigation and mulching.

🌿 12:15 | PSHB Update
The latest on the Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer and how to protect Cape Town's trees. With Francois Krige, Arborist, Krige Trees & Platbos

🌿 13:00 | Lunch Break

🌿 14:00 | Indigenous Grasses of the Western Cape: Beauty, Diversity and Potential for Sustainable Landscapes.
The botanical diversity, ecology, identification, propagation, conservation, horticultural characteristics, drought tolerance and their growing potential in landscape design. With Charles Laubscher, Professor of Horticulture, Assegaai Bosch Nursery.

🌿 15:00 | Conservation Gardening: Growing Locally Endemic Plants.
Mapping Cape Town’s unique vegetation types to local suburbs, sharing practical conservation gardening principles to help you select and grow endemic plants perfectly suited to your garden. With Alex Lansdowne, Discover Renosterveld

📍 HAPPY BY NATURE, Gate 2, Kirstenbosch
📅 Saturday, 17 October 2026 9am-4pm

Free talks and workshops! Enter HBN directly via Gate 2.

Whether you're an experienced gardener, just starting out or simply curious about the plants growing around us, we'd love to see you there.

Come celebrate with us! 💚


Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden

The weekend is almost here! 🌿Looking for a little time outdoors, some fresh inspiration for your garden, or simply a wan...
09/10/2026

The weekend is almost here! 🌿

Looking for a little time outdoors, some fresh inspiration for your garden, or simply a wander amongst beautiful indigenous plants?

Come and explore HAPPY BY NATURE at Kirstenbosch this weekend. Our nursery is full of fresh arrivals (some we have never had before), spring colour and plenty of inspiration for your own green space.

🌱 Find us at Kirstenbosch Gate 2, where we have our own entrance, so there’s no need to pay garden entry fees to visit us.

We’d love to see you! 💚

Planting possibilities 🌿Indigenous plants are full of surprises. From intelligent ways of surviving fire to flowers desi...
07/10/2026

Planting possibilities 🌿

Indigenous plants are full of surprises. From intelligent ways of surviving fire to flowers designed to guide their pollinators in, every species has a story and a role to play in the wider ecosystem.

Choosing indigenous means creating gardens that use less water, welcome local biodiversity and work with Nature rather than against it.

Come explore the possibilities at HAPPY BY NATURE, Gate 2, Kirstenbosch.

What’s your favourite fynbos species? 🌼🐝

Saturday plant shopping 🌿There’s plenty looking beautiful at HAPPY BY NATURE this weekend - and even more reason to pop ...
26/09/2026

Saturday plant shopping 🌿

There’s plenty looking beautiful at HAPPY BY NATURE this weekend - and even more reason to pop in with 30% OFF selected indigenous plants.

Come wander and find something special 🌸🌱

📍 HAPPY BY NATURE at Kirstenbosch, Gate 2
Open today 💚
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden

🇿🇦 Happy Heritage Day! 💛Today we celebrate the extraordinary plants, people and living knowledge that make South Africa ...
24/09/2026

🇿🇦 Happy Heritage Day! 💛

Today we celebrate the extraordinary plants, people and living knowledge that make South Africa so special.

And if you’re in Cape Town today, come celebrate with us at HAPPY BY NATURE, Kirstenbosch Gate 2, from 10am–12pm. We’ll be gathering with traditional healers and our team to listen, learn and explore the connection between indigenous knowledge, conservation and horticulture.

Free entry - everyone is welcome. 🌿

Come, listen, learn and grow together.

Can traditional storytelling bridge the gaps between indigenous knowledge systems, conservation, and horticulture? 🌿This...
23/09/2026

Can traditional storytelling bridge the gaps between indigenous knowledge systems, conservation, and horticulture? 🌿

This Heritage Day, join us at HAPPY BY NATURE for a meaningful morning exploring indigenous knowledge, plant medicine and the living traditions that connect people to land and Nature.

We’ll be joined by traditional healers uMhlekazi uLadum’izulu (Noxolo Sekhobo) and uMhlekazi uHlahlindlela (Nomalanga Ruiters), who will share stories, insights and practices rooted in generations of wisdom.

Together, we’ll explore plants traditionally associated with women’s health and wellbeing, sacred cleansing and intergenerational wellbeing, as well as the journey and philosophy of traditional healing.

Alongside HAPPY BY NATURE’s conservationist and horticulturists, we’ll also look at respectful harvesting, conservation, and how some of these indigenous plants can be grown and cared for at home.

The morning will close with an open panel and Q&A - a space for curiosity, reflection and conversation.

Thursday, 24 September | 10am–12pm
HAPPY BY NATURE, Gate 2, Kirstenbosch
Free entry

Come and create with Nature to nurture wellbeing. 🌱

Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden

There’s more to discover at HAPPY BY NATURE 🌿Create with Nature to nurture wellbeing.Join one of our workshops and exper...
20/09/2026

There’s more to discover at HAPPY BY NATURE 🌿

Create with Nature to nurture wellbeing.

Join one of our workshops and experiences, or bring your own idea and host a workshop or gathering with us.

From creative sessions and nature-based learning to intimate gatherings, our spaces are here to connect people with plants, creativity and each other.

Come curious. Leave inspired. 💚

Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden

After a week of wind and rain, Cape Town has turned on the sunshine ☀️💛And our Clivias are clearly just as happy about i...
19/09/2026

After a week of wind and rain, Cape Town has turned on the sunshine ☀️💛

And our Clivias are clearly just as happy about it.

Come spend a slow Saturday amongst the plants. We’re open all weekend at HAPPY BY NATURE 🌿

Kirstenbosch Gate 2

And remember: SANBI members get a 10% discount every day.
Pensioners get a 10% discount every Tuesday 🤗

Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden

Tree of the year 2026: Olea europaea subsp. africanaFamily: OleaceaeCommon names: wild olive, olienhout (Afr.), mohlware...
19/09/2026

Tree of the year 2026: Olea europaea subsp. africana

Family: Oleaceae
Common names: wild olive, olienhout (Afr.), mohlware (NSotho, SSotho), umnquma (Zulu, Xhosa, Swati), mutlhwari (Venda), motlhware (Tswana)

Attracts birds and butterflies, fragrant, edible, medicinal and useful plant, and feeds honeybees
(Source: pza.sanbi.org)

Check out the different tree sizes available at

Address

Two Locations: Gate 2, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens And 83 Kloof Nek Rd, Gardens
Newlands
7700

Opening Hours

Monday 09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 17:00
Thursday 09:00 - 17:00
Friday 09:00 - 17:00
Saturday 09:00 - 17:00
Sunday 09:00 - 17:00

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+27217971305

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