Pretoria National Botanical Garden is divided into two parts - north and south. Paved trail route through the garden provide visitors the opportunity to explore the amazing vegetation growing on the peninsula and brought from other continents.

Fifty hectares of the total area devoted almost exclusively South African plants. Here you can see all kinds of flowers and 50% of species of trees growing in the Republic of South Africa. This Botanical Garden offers visitors to learn and make their understanding of the different ecosystems, such as savannas, forest, tropical, subtropical, and others. The garden is home to more than 198 species of birds, reptiles and a number of small mammals, such as the South African Duiker antelope. Garden of the total area of ​​76 hectares lies on the slope of the ridge. Its territory is rich in wetlands, forests cycads trees, a large variety of succulents.

Initially, the Botanical Garden of Pretoria was known as the Transylvanian National Botanical Garden, created in 1946 as a research center, which was closed to the public until 1984. Visit it could only be by special arrangement, since it was primarily a research center under the supervision of the Research of the Botanical Institute, founded in 1903 together with the National Botanical Garden Kirstenbosch.

In the Botanical Garden of Pretoria you can see a rich collection of medicinal plants, several species of aloe, succulents, cycads. You can stroll through the green lawn and relax in the shade of the trees. Amazing exotic flowers fascinate everyone, shimmering with all the colors of the rainbow: red, purple, pink, orange and white. Beds with Namaqualand daisies, poured from orange to white colors attract birds, which are particularly partial to the shoots of these plants and often gnaw them before they begin to bloom. At this time, the Grey Duiker antelope occasionally wanders into the far side of the garden in search of food. They feed on leaves, flowers and fruits, and natural spring green is not enough, and they are fed workers garden. Unique is a beautiful avenue of flowering trees Bolyusantos graceful wisteria planted in 1946 on a plot of "medicinal plants".

Not far from the artificial waterfall is a cozy concert hall, a tea garden and a small restaurant where you can relax a bit, listen to music and enjoy the fragrant scent of flowering plants.