A CLIVIA SHOW AND CITY WORTH VISITING IN SEPTEMBER 2006

The friendly city of Port Elizabeth (http://www.places.co.za/html/port_elizabeth.html), also known as Mandela Bay and which is home to the Eastern Province Clivia Club, is situated on the Southeast coast of South Africa, the Sunshine Coast. It boasts some of the best beaches in the country, especially Jeffrey’s Bay, a world-renowned paradise for surfers.

Within a radius of approximately100 km we offer a dozen or more Game Reserves which includes Shamwari, which has been voted “World’s leading conservation company” and “World’s leading safari and game reserve” (visit www.shamwari.com for more info), the Kragga Kamma Game Park (www.kraggakamma.com ) only 15 minutes away from the City, the Addo Elephant Park which is known world-wide (www.parks-sa.co.za ) and the Sea View Game and Lion Park on our doorstep (e-mail seaview@isat.co.za).

We also offer the well-known Narrow Gauge Steam Train, the “The Apple Express” (www.apple-express.com), with day trips, some of the best golf courses in the country, a casino, nature trails, fantastic shopping malls, restaurants and respectable and reasonably priced bed & breakfasts, hotels, and much more. (For more info visit the Port Elizabeth Publicity Bureau at www.nmbt.co.za).

Our Club started off as an Interest Group with an inaugural meeting in October 1999. At our request we were accorded club status at the April 2002 Annual General Meeting of The Clivia Society in Cape Town. Since then, the Club has shown a very healthy growth from 80 to 242 members, the third largest club in South Africa. We are fortunate to have well-known Clivia growers like Charl Malan, Welland Cowley, Charl Coetzee as well as some up and coming growers in the likes of Andrè Calitz, Johan Mostert, Gideon Botha, Willie Le Roux, etcetera. These gentlemen stock quality plants including most of the species found in South Africa and are great supporters of our shows and Clivia sales tables.

To coincide with the International Clivia Conference to be held in Pretoria during September 2006, the Eastern Province Clivia Club is organizing Clivia nobilis habitat tours and a Clivia Festival on 22 – 24 September 2006. To make it a bumper show we have invited our neighbouring Clivia Clubs in George and East London to join us.  There will be lots of stalls selling food and a variety of other products and possibly a live transmission by our local radio station in addition to the show. We will naturally do our utmost to have television coverage of the show again.

We will endeavor to arrange accommodation for our visitors with club members.  Failing that, we have reasonably priced B & B’s in the area (plus minus R220 per person).

Would love to see you in Port Elizabeth.

Willie Le Roux
E-mail: girly@absamail.co.za
Tel: +27 41 360 3480

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