# Event Details

- **Event Name**: A Botanical Tourist Visits the Western Cape of South Africa
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 02 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 02 Apr, 2026 at 09:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Come explore the wild side of South Africa’s native plants with an evening all about the Western Cape’s botanical gems.About this EventSarah Gage will present highlights from her September 2025 tour of South Africa’s Western Cape and Namaqualand Provinces.The trip was timed to coincide with the rich displays of spring annuals and bulbs that carpet Namaqua National Park. The reserve is home to an estimated 3,500 species of plants (about the same number in the entire state of Washington). Up to 1,000 of these are endemic. The area holds the world’s greatest diversity of succulent plants and is the only declared desert biodiversity hotspot. The tour also visited the unique fynbos vegetation of the Cape Peninsula. The Cape Floristic Region, the smallest of the six recognized floral kingdoms of the world, is home to over 8,500 vascular plant species, of which nearly 70 percent are endemic. In other words, Sarah will show you pictures of a lot of cool plants, and some animals too.Sarah Gage has always loved plants. Now that she is retired, she has indulged this passion by seeking out botanical and horticultural sites and sights in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, Kazakhstan, South Africa… and she hopes she is just getting started. Sarah spent the first half of her career managing the University of Washington Herbarium (now part of the Burke Museum) and the second half working on biodiversity conservation and salmon recovery in state government. She has been active with the Washington Native Plant Society since 1988, serving as president in the mid-1990s. Currently she participates in several committees and curates the Botanical Rambles blog. She was named a WNPS Arthur R. Kruckeberg Fellow in 2024.Bellevue Botanical Garden, Aaron Education Center, 12001 Main St, Bellevue, WA 98005Program will be in-person & live streamed via Zoom. It will be recorded for later viewing. For information on how to sign up for Zoom, please contact our event web page:https://www.wnps.org/cps-events/a-botanical-tourist-visits-the-western-cape-of-south-africaStewart Wechsler, our Botanist Fellow, will host a plant ID workshops prior to this program at 6:30 PM. In addition to any plant samples the chapter botanists bring, attendees are welcome to bring in plant samples for identification.Public Welcome! Refreshments and door prizes. Donations appreciated.  Photo credit:  Sarah Gage
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/bellevue/a-botanical-tourist-visits-the-western-cape-of-south-africa/100001985698585924
- **Event Categories**: workshops, virtual, nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 1

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Bellevue
- **state**: WA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Bellevue Botanical Garden, Aaron Education Center
- **lat**: 47.6081613
- **long**: -122.1784384
- **full address**: Bellevue Botanical Garden, Aaron Education Center, 12001 Main Street, Bellevue, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is A Botanical Tourist Visits the Western Cape of South Africa being held?
  - **A:** A Botanical Tourist Visits the Western Cape of South Africa takes place on Thu, 02 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 02 Apr, 2026 at 09:00 pm at Bellevue Botanical Garden, Aaron Education Center, 12001 Main Street, Bellevue, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing A Botanical Tourist Visits the Western Cape of South Africa?
  - **A:** A Botanical Tourist Visits the Western Cape of South Africa is organized by Washington Native Plant Society, Central Puget Sound Chapter.

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