Company's Garden

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search
Company's Garden
Type Botanical
Location Cape Town, South Africa
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Operated by City of Cape Town
Walking in the Company's Garden
Squirrel in the Company's Garden

The Company's Garden is a park and heritage site[1] located in central Cape Town. The garden was originally created in the 1650s by the region's first European settlers and provided fertile ground to grow fresh produce to replenish ships rounding the Cape. It is watered from the Molteno Dam, which uses water from the springs on the lower slopes of Table Mountain.[2]

Features in the park

  • The oldest cultivated pear tree in South Africa (circa 1652)
  • A rose garden designed and built in 1929
  • A well stocked fish pond
  • Dellville Wood Memorial Garden, which commemorates the World War I Battle of Delville Wood in France, in which a predominantly South African force of more than 3,000 soldiers was reduced to 755 survivors by German forces
  • An aviary
  • Restaurant – The Company's Garden Restaurant
  • Botanically and historically valuable trees
  • Local arts and crafts along the avenue
  • Lawns and benches
  • A herb and succulent garden
  • Historic statues
  • Iziko South African Museum and Iziko National Gallery

Monument

Image Subject Location Designer/Sculptor Date of unveiling Notes Listing
Cecil John Rhodes Statue Companys Garden CT.jpg Cecil John Rhodes

1855-1902
Your hinterland is there

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

Herbert Baker June 28th, 1910 -University of Cape Town Newspaper Archives Cape Argus <templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>
Japanese Lantern Monument, Company's Garden.jpg Japanese Lantern Monument

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

1932 <templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>
Artillery Monument in the Company Gardens.JPG Artillery Memorial

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

<templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>
Delville Wood Memorial 01 CT.jpg Delville Wood Memorial

This memorial commemorates the South Africans who died in the Great Wars 1914-1918, 1939-1944.

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Herbert Baker 3 November 1930 <templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>
Monument of Sir Henry Timson Lukin.JPG Major General Sir Henry Timson Lukin

EKCB CMG DSO
Commander
Legion Nile
Born 24 May 1860
Died 16 December 1925
He served his King and beloved by his fellow men

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

Anton Van Wouw March 3rd, 1932 (University of Cape Town Newspaper Archives Cape Argus).


South African National Library with statue of sir George Grey.jpg Sir George Grey K.C.B

Governor
1854-1861

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

Marshall W. Calder


AIDS Memorial
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 2002


Rutherfoord Fountain 3.JPG Temperance Memorial

Jesus said whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst But the water that I shall give him shall be in him as a well of that I shall give him shall never thirst water springing up into everlasting life

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 1861 <templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>


Jan Smuts Statue in Company Gardens.JPG Field Marshal General Jan Christian Smuts

1870 – 1950

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

Sydney Harpley 29 May 1964

Nearby places of interest

Events

See also

<templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>

References

  1. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. http://www.capetown.gov.za/en/MediaReleases/Pages/CitysGreenHeartSavesWater.aspx

External links