Garden Day 2024

A guide to Garden Day: South Africa’s biggest garden party

How to celebrate, flower crowns, recipe ideas & events

Last updated: 1 October 2024 

Garden Day, happening 20 October this year (it's been an annual celebration since 2016), is all about celebrating the joys that nature brings us, whether it's plants on your patio or pots on a window sill.

How you do it is totally up to you: Lunch on a patio, plant swap, tea under your favourite tree… Just don’t forget to wear your flower crown, the official symbol of Garden Day. Find everything you need to know in our guide. 


Garden Day is celebrated on 20 October. Image: Garden Day 

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Gardens connect us to the natural world and inspire us to care for the ground and what grows from it. 

So the aim of Garden Day is to get everyone to appreciate their own plant paradise and share it with friends and neighbours, whether you have

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