Company's Garden

Company's Garden
Type	Botanical
Location	Cape Town, South Africa
Coordinates	33°55′39″S 18°25′00″E / 33.927408°S 18.416675°E / -33.927408; 18.416675Coordinates: 33°55′39″S 18°25′00″E / 33.927408°S 18.416675°E / -33.927408; 18.416675
Operated by	City of Cape Town

Walking in the Company's Garden

Squirrel in the Company's Garden

The Company's Garden is a park and heritage site^[1] located in central Cape Town. The garden was originally created in the 1650s by the region's first European settlers and provided fertile ground to grow fresh produce to replenish ships rounding the Cape. It is watered from the Molteno Dam, which uses water from the springs on the lower slopes of Table Mountain.^[2]

Features in the park

The oldest cultivated pear tree in South Africa (circa 1652)
A rose garden designed and built in 1929
A well stocked fish pond
Dellville Wood Memorial Garden, which commemorates the World War I Battle of Delville Wood in France, in which a predominantly South African force of more than 3,000 soldiers was reduced to 755 survivors by German forces
An aviary
Restaurant – The Company's Garden Restaurant
Botanically and historically valuable trees
Local arts and crafts along the avenue
Lawns and benches
A herb and succulent garden
Historic statues
Iziko South African Museum and Iziko National Gallery

Monuments

Subject	Location	Designer/Sculptor	Date of unveiling	Notes
Rhodes !Cecil John Rhodes 1855-1902 Your hinterland is there	33°55′36″S 18°25′03″E / 33.92664°S 18.4174°E / -33.92664; 18.4174 (Cecil John Rhones)	Baker !Herbert Baker	June 28th, 1910 !June 28th, 1910 -University of Cape Town Newspaper Archives Cape Argus	Main article: Cecil John Rhodes Statue
Japanese Lantern !Japanese Lantern Monument	33°55′33″S 018°25′6″E / 33.92583°S 18.41833°E / -33.92583; 18.41833		1932 !1932	Main article: Japanese Lantern Monument
Artillery Memorial !Artillery Memorial	33°55′41.9″S 18°24′58.5″E / 33.928306°S 18.416250°E / -33.928306; 18.416250			Main article: Artillery Memorial, Cape Town
Delville Wood Memorial !Delville Wood Memorial This memorial commemorates the South Africans who died in the Great Wars 1914-1918, 1939-1944.	33°55.686′S 18°24.958′E / 33.928100°S 18.415967°E / -33.928100; 18.415967 (Delville Wood Memorial)	Baker !Herbert Baker	1930 !3 November 1930	Main article: Delville Wood Memorial
Lukin !Major General Sir Henry Timson Lukin EKCB CMG DSO Commander Legion Nile Born 24 May 1860 Died 16 December 1925 He served his King and beloved by his fellow men	33°55.672′S 18°24.939′E / 33.927867°S 18.415650°E / -33.927867; 18.415650	van Wouw !Anton Van Wouw	March 3rd, 1932 !March 3rd, 1932 (University of Cape Town Newspaper Archives Cape Argus).
Grey !Sir George Grey K.C.B Governor 1854-1861	33°55.538′S 18°25.112′E / 33.925633°S 18.418533°E / -33.925633; 18.418533 (Sir George Grey)	Calder ! Marshall W. Calder
AIDS !AIDS Memorial	33°55.669′S 18°24.991′E / 33.927817°S 18.416517°E / -33.927817; 18.416517 (AIDS Memorial)		2002 !2002
Temperance Memorial !Temperance Memorial Jesus said whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst But the water that I shall give him shall be in him as a well of that I shall give him shall never thirst water springing up into everlasting life	33°55.585′S 18°25.005′E / 33.926417°S 18.416750°E / -33.926417; 18.416750 (Temperance Memorial)		1861 !1861	Main articles: Temperance fountain and Temperance movement
Smuts !Field Marshal General Jan Christian Smuts 1870 – 1950	33°55.708′S 18°24.990′E / 33.928467°S 18.416500°E / -33.928467; 18.416500	Harpley ! Sydney Harpley	1964 !29 May 1964

Nearby places of interest

Parliament & Tuynhuys are adjacent to the park
National Library of South Africa
St George's Cathedral
Slave Lodge
Centre for the Book
Gardens Shul, South African Jewish Museum
Cape Town Holocaust Centre
Hiddingh Campus, University of Cape Town
Mount Nelson Hotel

Events

The Company's Garden hosts the annual Cape Town Festival.
Cape Peninsula University of Technology usually has the annual walking/city tour that concludes at the Garden.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Company's Garden.

Attractions in Cape Town, South Africa

Buildings

Museums

Iziko Museums	Koopmans-de Wet House South African Museum South African National Gallery Groot Constantia Slave Lodge

Streets and squares

Mountains, parks and gardens

Beaches

Other

Robben Island

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