Gardens full of colour, buzzing insects looking for nectar, carrying pollen from one flower to another. Plants waking from yearly slumber, showing flowers too many to number! Natures’ alarm clock has rung, spring has sprung.

Situated in the Cape Floral Kingdom, the plant life at Steenberg is rich and diverse. A world biodiversity hotspot, the Cape Floral Kingdom possesses endemic fynbos plants which have unique reproductive strategies and patterns of seed dispersal by insects. It is the smallest of the worlds’ six floral kingdoms, and the only one to be contained within one country. The Table Mountain region (within which Steenberg falls) is one of the eight protected regions inside of the Cape Floral Kingdom. The Table Mountain National Park alone has more plant species within its 22 000 hectares than the whole British Isles or New Zealand, qualifying it as a World Heritage Site.

As the WOSA (Wines of South Africa) slogan goes: “Variety is in our Nature”. The wines of the Cape are as diverse as the local flora. At Steenberg, the proximity of the vines to fynbos has a notable effect on the tastes and traits of the wine. Our reds show interesting herbaceous characters – those you pick up when hiking on Table Mountain – and our Sauvignon Blanc in particular exhibits elderflower and nettle characters.

Below are some pics of flowers in our indigenous garden, enjoy!