Garden & Landscape Travel and Study Expeditions with Nan Sinton
The Western Cape of South Africa: The Plants, Gardens & Landscape
November 4-16, 2012
It's the Cape Floral Kingdom - perhaps the greatest concentrations of floral diversity in the botanical world; it's also a land of enormous spaces and ancient art, glorious
gardens, hospitable hosts and the unforgettable sight of magnificent animals on their own turf. Carl Linnaeus said it best "... there is no place on earth with such a variety of rare plants, animals, and other marvels of nature...it seems they are all concentrated at the Cape." Walk through Milkwood forests and coastal wildflowers, view native plants, botanical collections and private gardens, the wine country, large and small fauna- bonteboks, lions, elephants, giraffes, cave paintings, and malachite - maybe even a leopard. A noted South African botanist, an expert on the Country's native plants, will accompany us. Our group must be small to visit special places, charming hotels and memorable sites.
Tour Leader Nan Sinton
The LI Travel Expeditions are led by Nan Blake Sinton. As director of programs for Horticulture magazine Nan developed, organized and led an international series of garden seminars and tours. Nan, an experienced educator and designer was also the director of public programs at Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum.
Meet Nan Sinton
MS, Boston University; CAS, University of Georgia; BA, Queen's University of Belfast; Fellow of the Linnaean Society of London; president and co-founder, Sinton & Michener Associates Inc.; co-authored with Dr. David C. Michener, the Taylor's Guide to Ground Covers (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001). She is a horticultural educator, garden designer, writer, and national lecturer on design and planting who has led an international series of garden seminars, tours and symposiums for two decades; her work in horticultural outreach and education has been recognized by the Garden Club of America, and the Massachusetts Horticultural Society who awarded her a Gold Medal in 2005.