Tag: soekershof

• Who are we?

  Between April 2000 and July 2011 we, Herman and Yvonne, owned Soekershof in Robertson. We restored and extended this historical botanical garden (with the oldest cactus -Anno 1910- of South Africa) and ended up with one of the world’s largest outdoor collections (>2600 species/subspecies/varieties/etc) of succulent plants including cacti. The garden was globally recognized in […]

  Herman van Bon Photography

  February 27, 2013

  flower, flowers, garden, gardening, green cathedral of south africa, photography, plants, South Africa, Stanford, tourism, travel, Uncategorized

  botanical garden, craftsmen, empowerment program, hedge-maze, land art project, quality of life, Robertson, soekershof

• Developments in our garden

  Almost every day we add a picture of our garden to our ‘Green Cathedral of South Africa’ page on Facebook. We started this page a few years ago after the restoration and extension of the historical succulent garden of Soekershof. Today a year ago an Italian/German couple visited us there and made an offer to purchase. […]

  Herman van Bon Photography

  May 18, 2012

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  collection, cuttings, developments, facebook, rare, seeds, soekershof, specimens, succulents