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Botsoc Kogelberg Next Talk

Diarise these dates! 18 August 2018 Topic: Mountain Deserts Presenter: Werner Voigt Time: 17:30 for 18:00 Venue: Harold Porter National Botanical Gardens Werner Voigt, Curator of the Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden, which cultivates and displays a wide variety of arid and semi-arid plants within 154 hectares at the foot of the Hex River Mountain range, 120 km north of Cape Town, will talk on Mountain Deserts. The most well known mountain desert in South Africa is found in the Richtersveld National Park. Despite being a desert, the Richtersveld has the most extraordinary biodiversity. Around…
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Botsoc Kogelberg Next Talk

AGM Kogelberg Branch of the Botanical Society of South Africa Annual General Meeting Date: 21 July 2018 Time: 17:30 for 18:00 Venue: Harold Porter National Botanical Gardens Talk Topic: Thunberg and Sparrman – Apostles of Linnaeus in South Africa Presenter: John Rourke Date: 21 July 2018 Time: After AGM Venue: Harold Porter National Botanical Gardens The Apostles of Linnaeus were a group of students who carried out botanical and zoological expeditions throughout the world that were either devised or approved by botanist Carl Linnaeus. The expeditions took place during the latter half of the 18th…
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