Walks, Tours & Workshops

 Walks

This year LHSA focussed on developing the first ever Landscape Heritage Route in the region starting off in the Mother City, Cape Town.

Titled Cape Town Heritage Garden Route, the route covers 10 historic/heritage gardens from the primary Company's Gardens in central Cape Town, then following the development of parks and gardens from the 1650s through three centuries to the 1950s ending at Casa Labia, the smallest garden of all!

LHSA is developing other routes which we will be walking in 2024:

• CT Atlantic Seaboard

• Cape Peninsula

• Winelands

Each Landscape Heritage Route has 10 historic/heritage gardens to enjoy!

Tours

LHSA also hosted its first ever private heritage garden tour to the renowned romantic gardens of the Hogsback in the Amathole Mountains of the Eastern Cape.

The tour was a great success and visited 8 fabulous gardens in the English style of Rhododendrons and Azaleas under the most incredible tall trees you can experience including the magnificent Dawn Redwoods.

These gardens are entirely exotic and the inspiration of an Englishman from Oxfordshire. The results are superb and overwhelmingly beautiful. The impact of these extensive gardens and some small ones is truly magnificent.

Workshops

So far we have not got as far as this big milestone but we are slowly working towards it. Meanwhile please have a look at our other activities which are building up to this.

Areas that we are looking at are:

• Ancientscapes & Culture

• Farmscapes & Agriculture

• Forestscapes & Silviculture

• Fruitscapes & Horticulture

• Gardenscapes & Horticulture

• Indigenouscapes & Culture

• Landscapes & Landscape Architecture

• Parkscapes & Urbiculture

• Treescapes & Arboriculture

• Vinescapes & Viticulture