A botanical adventure

A visit to a botanical garden does not have to be dull. Soekershof is globally one of the exceptions of this rule. During opening days it organises (11 AM sharp!!!) interactive garden explorations. Guests are invited to touch spiny cacti and taste succulent flowers and succulent fruits. Soekershof is the breeding place of the South African cactus trade. In one of the gardens visitors can see the oldest cactus of South Africa (Anno 1910). Irish landscaper and BBC-presentor Diarmuid Gavin recommended this garden as one of the 6 ‘must visit’ gardens in South Africa in an article in The Sunday Times in January 2008. Soekershof is not only privately owned but of all (botanical) gardens in South Africa the only one which is certified by Fair Trade in Tourism in South Africa because of its high standards of human resource management and investments in the local community. Locally Soekershof is especially known for its ‘Klaas Voogds Maze’ with an unusual lay out (visualised stories as beacons) and its enormous size (13,870 sqm net surface.
Cultivation of plants in the own nursery and gardens is fully organically without the use of fertilisers and other chemicals.