PLANTING OUR NATURAL FUTURE

FynbosLIFE is a wildlife charity and non-profit organisation, run by botanists, ecologists and horticulturists. Proudly based in Cape Town, we protect and promote the City’s exceptional yet highly threatened local lowland fynbos biodiversity, through educational horticulture, habitat restoration projects, and our conservation nursery:

Cape Flats Fynbos Nursery

Read more about our mission and vision, and meet our team

Tweet
Share
0 Shares
At FynbosLIFE we believe that gardening can be the easiest and most rewarding way to support local biodiversity. The secret lies in planting locally indigenous flora. Every LIFE garden, irrespective of size, counts towards urban wildlife conservation. As the keepers of these ecological and educational assets, LIFE gardeners in turn become environmental custodians and carers of the broader Fynbos Biome.

Create your own LIFE garden

Considered one of the greatest wonders of nature, and host to more plant species than the entire United Kingdom, Table Mountain has achieved global fame. Beneath it lies the urban centre of Cape Town, the Most Biodiverse City in the World. Did you know that much of Cape Town’s wild diversity also occurs on the low-lying Cape Flats, and is partly conserved in lowland nature reserves? These conservation areas are hidden gems, showcasing remaining fragments of extraordinary veld types and brimming with inspiration for gardeners to simulate plant communities lost to urbanisation.

Discover Cape Town's Lowland Nature Reserves
#FYNBOSLIFE

Subscribe to our newsletter

Email address

First Name

Last Name

I have read and agree to the terms & conditions

What you consent to By subscribing to our mailing list, you accept that FYNBOSLIFE NPC 2019/067339/08 may collect, store and use the personal data you share with us for the purpose of sending you direct marketing messages as per s69 of the Protection of Personal Information Act (4 of 2013, "POPIA") for as long as you don't withdraw your consent. Operators ito. s20 POPIA contracted by us may be given access to this data, subject to our authorisation and under condition of confidentiality. You may at any time withdraw your consent by using the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of every email we send out. For more details, please read our Privacy Statement.

JOIN THE MOVEMENT

There are many different ways for you to get involved in Cape Town’s locally indigenous greening movement: you can plant your own LIFE garden, volunteer your time, donate money or other resources, fundraise, or shop for botanical products in support of our organisation.

LIFE garden

VELD CIRCLES

Donate

Contribute financially, or share resources that support our cause

Bank name Nedbank
Account name FYNBOSLIFE
Account number 1127617079
Branch code 198765

Please email proof of payment to info@fynboslife.com

Fundraise

Would you like to create your own community or school garden? Why not start your own fundraising campaign for our Cape Flats Fynbos Nursery to grow plants for your project’s original veld type?
Register as a FynbosLIFE champion on Back a Buddy

Volunteer

To join our nursery weeding team, contact info@fynboslife.com

Awards

FynbosLIFE and its Cape Flats Fynbos Nursery are one of a kind advocating greening according to local veld type, an approach which has received recognition through the John Winter prize for the Best Stand on Show at the Botanical Society of South Africa’s Kirstenbosch Plant Fair in 2015, a Silver Biodiversity Award at the 2015/2016 Enviropaedia Eco-Logic Awards and selection as one of the top five Eco-Logic green businesses in South Africa for 2015/2016.

Botanical Society of South Africa

Receiving the John Winter Prize for Best Stand on Show from Botanical Society of South Africa Chairperson Dirk Müller, at the Kirstenbosch Plant Fair (2015)

Enviropaedia

David Parry-Davies, Enviropaedia Editor, presenting Caitlin von Witt with a Silver Biodiversity Award for FynbosLIFE (2016)