Done and dusted

Despite all meteorological and financial odds, The First Official Provisional Fynbos Museum of the Greater Khayelitsha Area opened to the public on May 2 2009. Below are some images of the garden as it exists today.

The next phase of the project involves an "absorption day", when members of the surrounding suburbs and informal settlements will be invited to come and take materials from the garden that they can use to improve their own homes. Thereafter the plants in the garden will be cared for by a group of environmentalists led by Andile Sanayi and Zikhona Ngesi.

But for now, here are some pics.

By day

And at night.

THe floodlights are darkness-activated, so this is what it looks like every night.