http://blog.sa-venues.com/provinces/western-cape/kirstenbosch-national-botanical-gardens/ Travel News from South Africa by SA-Venues.com Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:45:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.sa-venues.com/provinces/western-cape/kirstenbosch-national-botanical-gardens/#comment-1196 Jeremy Franks Sun, 28 Nov 2010 10:01:17 +0000 http://blog.sa-venues.com/?p=3929#comment-1196 I'm translating for publication an18th-century ms in Swedish that mentions a marine plant seen off the Cape. Should be grateful for help in identifying it. The account reads."a sort of floating root that probably grows on the bank itself. It is usually three to four ells [120 to 160 cm] in length, greenish-yellow in colour and at one end as thick as a man’s arm but thinner at the other, hollow, and softer and more porous than ordinary canes or reeds. It is rooted at its thinner end by many fine shoots between which sand and coral fastens in a clump as big as two fists. Sometimes two or three of these stalks grow up from a single root. At the end of the thicker or upper end (they are believed to grow vertically upwards) it has the form of a pointed head of a snake, from which hang a great many leaves, one-and-a-half inches in width and thick and tough with fine filaments, like moss. The Portuguese call them trombas or trumpet". I'm translating for publication an18th-century ms in Swedish that mentions a marine plant seen off the Cape. Should be grateful for help in identifying it. The account reads."a sort of floating root that probably grows on the bank itself. It is usually three to four ells [120 to 160 cm] in length, greenish-yellow in colour and at one end as thick as a man’s arm but thinner at the other, hollow, and softer and more porous than ordinary canes or reeds. It is rooted at its thinner end by many fine shoots between which sand and coral fastens in a clump as big as two fists. Sometimes two or three of these stalks grow up from a single root. At the end of the thicker or upper end (they are believed to grow vertically upwards) it has the form of a pointed head of a snake, from which hang a great many leaves, one-and-a-half inches in width and thick and tough with fine filaments, like moss. The Portuguese call them trombas or trumpet".

]]> http://blog.sa-venues.com/provinces/western-cape/kirstenbosch-national-botanical-gardens/#comment-1120 Natasha Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:27:54 +0000 http://blog.sa-venues.com/?p=3929#comment-1120 Can you book for weddings and what is the cost? Can you book for weddings and what is the cost?

]]> http://blog.sa-venues.com/provinces/western-cape/kirstenbosch-national-botanical-gardens/#comment-316 conor Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:45:26 +0000 http://blog.sa-venues.com/?p=3929#comment-316 Oh my goodness how beautiful is this? The colours are amazing. I have friends over there I gotta get them to check this out when it's in bloom. Oh my goodness how beautiful is this? The colours are amazing. I have friends over there I gotta get them to check this out when it's in bloom.

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