Take your seat at a long table beneath a golden sunset, framed by a lane of tall poplars and surrounded by the bounty of the Babylonstoren garden.

Indulge in the freshest fruits and vegetables, handmade cheese, warm loaves, artisanal spreads, charcuterie, fresh trout and flame-to-fork fare from the braai. Seasonal chef’s salads add vibrancy, while dessert takes shape in creamy gelato made with milk from our water buffalo herd.

Toast the moment with a glass of blush-hued Babylonstoren Mourvèdre Rosé.

Price: R1850 p.p.

16:30 – 17:00 Arrive at chapel, receive flower crown & aperitif

17:00 – 18:30 Guided garden walk

18:30 – 20:00 Long table feast, live music & good company

Spring has sprung which means it’s time to join us in The Homestead garden for a fun day out celebrating 10 years of Garden Day!

Enjoy this annual tradition with friends and family. Start off with a complementary wine tasting on arrival, have fun making your very own flower crown while listening to live music, and feast on our delicious Spring-inspired 3 course lunch menu that includes crown and flowers.

Adults: R500 per person

Kids: R250 per child under 10 years

Step into a gentle, nature-filled morning of creativity and connect with the beauty of flowers. In this seasonal workshop, set in the peaceful tranquility of the Veld and Sea Glasshouse, you’ll learn how to weave your own wild and whimsical flower crown using fresh blooms and foraged foliage.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

Learn how to make your own flower crowns - creating beautiful and unique natural adornments. Explore the meanings and qualities of the flowers you’re using, adding layers of story to your crown. Enjoy herbal teas and a slice (or two) of floral-inspired cakes.

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

• Materials to make your crowns

• A guided flower crown-making session and a take-home flower crown

• Teas and wild-flavour cakes

• PDF follow-up notes

• Access to browse through a curated collection of plant books in our mini wild library

WHAT TO BRING:

A bunch of flowers to share - gathered, grown or bought.

PRICE:

• R850 per person.

• Kids under 16 at R425 per person, kids under 3 join for free.

• Children joining must be accompanied by a paying adult.

Soil provides the nutrients, water and support for plant roots, making it the foundation for life.

What better way to celebrate Garden Day than at Soil for Life in Constantia.

Everyone is welcome! Join them to find out more about the Cape Horticultural Society.

Bring a plate of snacks to share. Tea and coffee will be provided.

A hat of flowers or a flower crown could win you a prize.

RSVP by 8 October to [email protected].

The Backyard Cafe in collaboration with VELT is celebrating 10 years of Garden Day with a Flower Pressing Workshop. You can look forward to:

• Grounding meditation in a safe and tranquil space

• An A5 Velt Flower Press to fill with blooms and take home, and a booklet filled with all the info from the workshop

• A range of beautiful seasonal flowers to forage from and press

• The history of flower pressing and preparation info

• A step-by-step guide on how to press flowers

• Ideas of what to do with your pressings

• Coffee and tea with delicious snacks and treats

R1 300 per person + optional Fynbos flower crown for R160.

Join the Norval Foundation for a fun filled day in their sculpture garden as you celebrate Garden Day with family and friends. Your ticket includes access to the garden, live entertainment, food trucks, cash bar, SIP! Exclusive Cocktails, kids’ activities and more. Bring a picnic blanket, soak up the spring atmosphere, and enjoy a day of relaxation, creativity and connection in a beautiful setting.

Bring your cuttings, plants and seeds for a free plants exchange with your neighbours. Find the table at Lever Street Park and swop away in celebration of Garden Day.

Calling all flower lovers! 💐
Join our Garden Day Fun workshop and create your own beautiful flower headpiece amidst gorgeous surroundings.
Unwind, have fun, treat yourself and indulge in some me-time.

Cost: R350 pp.

Book on WhatsApp 0832559729.

What's included?

• All flowers and equipment

• Step-by-step guidance to create your own beautiful crown

• Light snack and refreshing drink

Bring your friends and family and join us for a seasonal brunch, and fynbos flower crown workshop.

This Garden Day we’re taking a moment to slow down, appreciate, and celebrate all the wonderful growth on our farm, and encourage you to join us for a casual community gathering as we connect with nature. 

Art director and designer, Cayley, will be guiding you through a fun 1 hour workshop making your own fynbos flower crowns. Take your time getting creative, playful and spark some joy. Take a meander before settling down to brunch, and weave in your own selection of botanicals from our farm.

Your meal will be a 2 course harvest table of scrumptious, seasonal brunch dishes by chef Caitlin. 

Book your tickets to experience a joyful day of delicious food, playfulness, creativity and connection with nature.

Price: R650 per person. Welcome drink, workshop, and 2 course brunch included. Kids 7 years and under can be booked at half price.

Join Sillery Farm in their organic and biodynamic vegetable garden as they teach you how to plant a summer vegetable garden. It will be a hands-on morning where you explore what to plant, how to plant, how to look after your soil and your plants - all you need to know to create a thriving vegetable garden. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced grower, join them for a morning of inspiration and learning together. 

Price: R350 pp.

To book contact Jo on 082 610 9989.

Spend Garden Day in Kalk Bay!

This is what you can look forward to:

1. Erin Cowie from Fynboslife - Lever Park 2.30 pm

2. Kalk Bay Vineyard tour & tasting 12 - 1.30 pm

3. Venies sculpture garden - all day with puppet show and rock painting from 10.30 - 11.30 am

5. Beth Fleming is opening her garden in St James: Homestead gardening - Capri Road 10 am

6. Plant swap in Lever Park, 10 am - 12 pm

7. Kids market in Lever Park 9 - 10 am

8. ⁠Saint Siena Flower Crowns 10 am - 2 pm

9. ⁠Explore the Community gardens:

🌷Harbour entrance

🌸 Harris walk

🌻 Outspan Sculpture Garden

🌺 Duignam Road to Ponder Steps

🌸 Lever Str Park

🪷 Danger Beach Park

Nieuwe Sion is thrilled to announce their collaboration with the internationally renowned artist Lorraine Loots for a garden-inspired, one-day creative workshop.

Join them for an introduction to miniature watercolour painting.

Skill level: all welcome.

What’s included:

• 3-hour workshop by Lorraine Loots

• Outdoor lunch experience with a freshly prepared family-style feast

• Springfield MCC & wine

• Welcome gift to celebrate Garden Day

Price: R5 500 pp, optional art kit at R1 650.

Contact [email protected] to book your seat.

Accommodation available on request. R6 500 per person per night, including breakfast.

The Sculpture Garden will be open to celebrate Garden Day!

Guests are welcome to meander the garden in their own time, or join a guided tour at 10:00.
There will be a flower crown station set among the Dombeya rotundifolia trees, while they are in fleeting spectacular bloom.

Cost: R260 per adult (pensioners and students R160)
*Prebooking is required via the website or studio*

Celebrate Garden Day in full bloom with Blom!

Join them on Saturday, 11 October at 11:00 at the Creative Cube, Table Bay Mall for a fun and creative Flower Crown Workshop.

What’s included:

• All fresh flowers & equipment supplied

• Light snack & refreshing drink

• Step-by-step guidance to create your own beautiful crown

Price: R450 per person.

Bring your friends, family, or just yourself and enjoy a morning surrounded by flowers, laughter, and creativity.

Limited seats available – book your spot now and crown yourself with blossoms this Garden Day!

This Garden Day, we’re celebrating in the most magical way – with a Flower Crown Workshop just for kids! Come along these school holidays and create your very own crown made of beautiful blooms. Put on your petals, show off your style, and let’s turn you into little garden royalty.

When: 11 October at 11am

Location: Bugz Playpark, Joostenbergvlakte

Ages: Kiddies aged 4 – 12 years

Price: R200 per child (Includes the workshop plus park entry and rides for the whole day!)

Booking is essential: [email protected]

Think blooms, art, food, and local makers all gathered in one garden celebration!

156Kloof is hosting a floral and lifestyle pop-up market in celebration of Garden Day, art, style, flowers, and creativity. 

The line-up includes an art exhibition by Austen Gordon, posies for sale from House of Flowers, clothing from Harlow & Summer and Gabriella Charlotte, speciality teas from Smith House of Tea, bakes from Cookie Laros and Flour Market, homeware from The Finishing Store, jewellery from Botânica, and bodycare and fragrance from Muse Beauty. Drinks will be served, with mimosas until noon and wine until three.

Guests will be encouraged to explore and enjoy the back garden, where picnic blankets will be laid out for a relaxed, family-friendly atmosphere.

Entrance is R10 at the door.

You’re invited to celebrate Garden Day with Poetry!

Enjoy a seasonal floral arranging demonstration by Lana Fredericks of MYUZU, along with refreshments from Babylonstoren.

Sweet Lionheart x Cedar Coffee Roasters x Blush & Bloom presents Bakes, Blooms & Brews!

Join the bake sale for a morning of bakes, blooms & beans – the perfect way to celebrate spring and Garden Day with the community! Visitors can expect:
– Bake Sale staples, including the SLH x Cedar Mocha Deli Cake
– A special new flavour: Vanilla Lemon Twist (vanilla cake filled with lemon curd, whipped white chocolate ganache, and vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream, decorated with fresh spring florals)
– Blush & Bloom flower cart with custom posies available on the day
– Cedar Coffee Roasters pouring their signature brews

Special Offer: The first 30 customers to buy cake will receive a free coffee from Cedar Coffee Roasters.

Price: Free entry – all are welcome!

Visit @sweet.lionheart on Instagram for more info.

Nieuwe Sion is thrilled to announce their collaboration with local artist Dayna Gay-Tate for a garden-inspired, one-day creative workshop.

Join them for a botanical-themed mixed media workshop with an emphasis on playful mark-making, using foraged plants from Nieuwe Sion’s garden.

Skill level: all welcome.

What’s included:

• 3-hour workshop by Dayna Gay-Tate

• Outdoor lunch experience with a freshly prepared family-style feast

• Springfield MCC & wine

• Welcome gift to celebrate Garden Day

Price: R3 000 pp.

Contact [email protected] to book your seat.

Accommodation available on request: R6 500 per person per night, including breakfast

Celebrate Garden Day with like-minded individuals.

You will be welcomed to our Regenerative Cut flower Farm overlooking the beautiful Outeniqua mountains, just outside George. Cut your own farm fresh flowers and learn to design a beautiful arrangement with bio-degradable items in your home.

Please bring your favourite vase, sun hat and gumboots.

Coffee & Snacks available from our farm shop.

Price: R450 per person.

Get ready to celebrate Garden Day! Warm up for the feast by bringing along your friends, parents or children to share in the joy of creating flower crowns with the guidance of our Flower Team. Whether you’d like to stand proud like Caesar or Aphrodite, or rather dance about like a flower fairy, our garden is where it all begins. The workshop includes flowers and all materials. Juice will be served as refreshment.

Meet at the Farm Shop. Only 15 places available per session.

Price: R500 p.p.

Workshop Times:
7th October 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
7th October 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
9th October 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
9th October 2025, 14:00 - 16:00

Enjoy the sunset charms of our garden on an exclusive guided walk, followed by a flame to fork harvest braai at our Greenhouse Restaurant. We’ll start with a garden-inspired sundowner, before donning a flower crown for a photo opportunity and heading off into the garden. As our day visitors depart, savour this sacred time of day guided by Babylonstoren’s attentive gardeners. Stroll through the garden, pausing to indulge at our olive oil and Mourvèdre rosé tasting stations. As dusk descends, take a seat at our flame to fork harvest table under the majestic oaks of the Greenhouse Restaurant. Think grilled halloumi, mushroom skewers, garden salads and farm-reared meat, paired with Babylonstoren wines or celebratory Sprankel. Kick off your shoes, dig your toes into the soil and unwind. With a glass of wine in hand and soothing jazz melodies, relax and celebrate the essence of Garden Day!

Only 40 places available.

Price: R1300 p.p.

Introducing Cape Town’s Cookbook Club hosted by My Kitchen Rules South Africa Season 3 winners, Izak Redelinghuys and Wessel Pieterse. A bi-monthly get together where guests all cook a dish from a selected cookbook and simply get together to feast. Join us on 20 October as we celebrate one cookbook and feast together in one of Cape Town’s best known gardens in celebration of Garden Day!

How it works:

·      Sign up for the mailing list to get invited and we will share the secret location for the feast.

·      Cook a dish from the chosen recipe book. If you don’t own the book ask us for inspiration.

·      Arrive with your dish and feast away with other foodies.

How much does it cost? 100% free. Just cook a dish for around 10 people, and depending on the venue you might need to pay an entrance fee.

Celebrate the beauty of Spring as we welcome guests to The Homestead this Garden Day!

Gather your friends and family for a relaxed afternoon featuring a complimentary wine tasting on arrival, live music, and the chance to create your own flower crown.

Feast on a Spring-inspired buffet style lunch, showcasing dishes like Salmon, Asparagus & Wild Green Frittata, Tarragon & Lemon Roast Farm Chickens, and Honey Crisp Apple Salad with Feta, Rocket, and Pomegranate.

End the day with our delightful cake and tea selection.

Join us for a perfect day of food, fun, and floral creativity!

Adults: R400 per person, Kids under 10: R250 per person.

The Cape Horticultural Society and Friends of the Arderne Gardens are hosting a Garden Day picnic in Arderne Garden.

Bring a picnic with blankets or chairs. You must be wearing a flower crown or hat.

There will be a guided garden walk.

RSVP to [email protected].

We are delighted to announce the opening of HAPPY BY NATURE, indigenous nursery and botanical studio, at the iconic Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens on Garden Day. Our opening day celebrations will include talks and demonstrations covering herbal healing, potpourris, plant propagation and everything green in-between. Situated at gate 2. No entrance to the gardens required.

Spend Garden Day at Boland Park in Durbanville!

Come wearing your flower crown or make one with us!

Guided tours at 11:30 and 14:00.

Fun kid’s activities.

Nature journaling (capture your nature experience on paper).

Bring your picnic basket and blanket for a relaxing day in the park.

Learn the art of arranging and making a flower crown with Lezel from Wild About Flowers.

R450 per person.

Includes snacks and a drink.