Company's Garden

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

Image	Subject	Location	Designer/Sculptor	Date of unveiling	Notes	Listing
	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)	Herbert Baker	June 28th, 1910 –University of Cape Town Newspaper Archives Cape Argus	Main article: Cecil John Rhodes Statue
	Japanese Lantern Monument	33°55′33″S 018°25′6″E / 33.92583°S 18.41833°E / -33.92583; 18.41833		1932	Main article: Japanese Lantern Monument
	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 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)	Herbert Baker	3 November 1930	Main article: Delville Wood Memorial
	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 (Major General Sir Henry Timson Lukin)	Anton Van Wouw	March 3rd, 1932 (University of Cape Town Newspaper Archives Cape Argus).
	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)	Marshall W. Calder
	AIDS Memorial	33°55.669′S 18°24.991′E / 33.927817°S 18.416517°E / -33.927817; 18.416517 (AIDS Memorial)		2002
	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	Main articles: Temperance fountain and Temperance movement
	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 (Field Marshal General Jan Christian Smuts)	Sydney Harpley	29 May 1964

Nearby places of interest

• Parliament and 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.

See also

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Company's Garden.

• Cape Town Festival
• SA Jewish Museum
• Cape Town Holocaust Museum
• Cape Town Parks
• Site by Company Gardens, Cape Town , at SAHRA