At Grootbos Private Nature Reserve’s Hannarie Wenhold Botanical Art Gallery you can admire the remarkable detail of fynbos flowers captured in 124 botanical illustrations.
GROOTBOS, Overberg
Amonument to plants
The team at Grootbos Private Nature Reserve has been conserving and rehabilitating the indigenous vegetation of the Overberg coast for 24 years. Now, the reserve has introduced a world-class florilegium* – a book containing a collection of botanical art and nature observations – a first in Africa, as well as the first botanical art museum in the southern hemisphere.
With more than 922 fynbos species, Grootbos is one of the most diverse biospheres in the world.
“We live in possibly one of the most beautiful floral regions on the planet,” says Grootbos co-owner Michael Lutzeyer. “We wanted to share it with the world and get people
