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SPORT & OUTDOOR
 Clanwilliam
Annual Wild Flower Show
Venue: N.G. Kerk, CLanwilliam. Tel: (027) 482 2024.
Time: 8:00am - 7:00pm
Price: R5 (children) R15 (Pensioners) R20 (adults)
Performances: 22 - 27 Aug 2008
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Clanwilliam, the gateway to South Africa’s finest floral region, is
opening its doors once again with its Wild Flower Show from 22-27 August
2008. Showcasing the inimitable flora exclusive to the Clanwilliam
district and Ramskop Nature Reserve, while also raising public awareness
on conservation issues, the Clanwilliam Wild Flower Show has become a
standing tradition for flower fanatics since its inception in 1972.
Every year visitors with a love and appreciation of the beauty of wild
flowers are drawn back to a blossoming Clanwilliam, indisputably the first
must-see of the floral fantasy land the region transforms into. A new
medicinal garden has also been planted during the past year to add to the
comprehensive variety of flora in the region.
Taking place amidst the exceptional ambience created by the Neo-Gothic
architecture of the N.G. Kerk building, the exhibition illustrates the
natural beauty of the region through reconstructed landscapes featuring
the plants and wild flowers from the Clanwilliam area and the Ramskop
Nature Reserve.
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Clanwilliam has the largest variety of wild flowers in one district in
the world due to the vastly differing topography of the area which sees a
dry and arid Karoo environment merging with the marshlands found at the
foot of the Cederberg and Pakhuis mountains.
Over 400 species from 38 different plant families are displayed at the
Clanwilliam Wild Flower Show every year, many of them growing nowhere else
in the world. These wild flower wonders include Geel Perdekop, Sneeuprotea,
Blou Bergaster, Cederboom, Rooibos, Geel Botterblom, Boegoe and Pienk
Handjie.
Visitors to the Ramskop Nature Reserve will appreciate the
metamorphosis it has recently undergone and can look forward to new
succulent and water-rich area plant displays. There is a tea garden
available laden with a variety of delicacies to provide sustenance for
plant-lovers and a scenic footpath to meander along with stunning views of
the popular Clanwilliam dam.
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