Flower Circular Routes

Rosenhof – Clanwilliam Wildflower Festival – Ramskop Wildflower Garden – Biedouw Valley – Botterkloof Nature Reserve – Niewoudtville – Bagdad Café – Vanrhynsdorp – Rosenhof

Use Rosenhof Guesthouse and Self-catering in Clanwilliam as your basecamp to experience the wildflower spectacle when late winter Spring-flowers display an abundance of colours after welcome rains, in and around Clanwilliam, your gateway to the Cederberg.

Karen, your host combined circular routes, taking you on day trips of colour with carpets of spring flowers, from Babiana, Nemesias, Ixias and lachenalias, to be seen in great abundance. Display upon display of wildflowers are exhibited by eager willing residents during Clanwilliam Wildflower Festival in the Flower Church and Ramskop’s Wildflower Garden, which is maintained with great enthusiasm for our thousands of visitors. 

The Biedouw Vally displays carpets of yellow and orange daisies, where the farmers leave the soil of their rooibos tea plantations unturned, for the most natural annual phenomenon especially for curious guests from all over. Follow the R364 over the Doring River through Botterkloof Nature Reserve, through colour plateaus of farmland to Niewoudtville – with a visit to the Quiver Tree Forest at Gannabos and Niewoudtville Waterfall. And then, a must stop at eccentric Bagdad Café – an oasis on the Kersvlakte-road (R27) leading to Vanrynsdorp’s – visit their succulent nursery and enjoy a delicious cup-of-Joe at their coffee shop, before returning to Rosenhof with the N7.
Trips to Lamberts Bay and the West Coast are all possible from Rosenhof as your basecamp. The areas along the coast north and south of Doringbaai also have much to offer to the flower enthusiast. Doringbaai offers a world-renowned succulent nursery, also experiencing wine tasting at Fryers Cove Vineyard restaurant.

Welcome advice from Karen is that guests make the mistake of doing one-night reservations at different destinations, so that in their misguided thinking they can see as much of this annual phenomenon as possible. Your day trip needs to be impeccable, and the sunlight is the primary aspect, and for this reason Karen took the initiative and time to put together these circular routes. The inconvenience with one-night bookings, is your luggage which is not always safe in your vehicle, and then, most importantly, the time of day in the different areas, to view the best flower display. A very important aspect is that one cannot order the weather. Her advice is to use Clanwilliam as a base with daily circular routes, returning to Rosenhof for a second and even a third day, to get the best results.