When on an AWOL city cycle tour find out if the flower sellers of Cape Town started in the dark slave trade days, with slaves selling Table Mountain blooms to early settlers, or from little girls handing daisy bouquets to the fashionable ladies disembarking in Cape Town harbour.
When on an AWOL city cycle tour find out if the flower sellers of Cape Town started in the dark slave trade days, with slaves selling Table Mountain blooms to early settlers, or from little girls handing daisy bouquets to the fashionable ladies disembarking in Cape Town harbour.
When on an AWOL city cycle tour find out if the flower sellers of Cape Town started in the dark slave trade days, with slaves selling Table Mountain blooms to early settlers, or from little girls handing daisy bouquets to the fashionable ladies disembarking in Cape Town harbour.
Somewhere between the history books and legends passed down from grandmother to granddaughter around the early evening homestead fire, the history of the Cape Town flower sellers remains as colourful and varied as their trading wares.
The Adderly Street bike lane is our passage from the past to the present of Cape Town and today it is the same buzzing, vibrant, gathering place for locals, tourists, traders and commuters as it was a hundred and twenty-five years ago. The flower sellers will tell you in bawdy banter about how their grandmother’s grandmother would search the mountain after dark to evade the fines of picking flowers on Table Mountain and the creative length that the flower people would go to dodge the £3 trading license of 1905. In-between ordering lunch pies, giving directions to a passersby and arranging long elegant straletizea and sunflower stems, medicinal cures are dispensed, and knowledge of fabric, food markets and perfected recipe’s are shared.
The Flower sellers have been described as the heart, soul and song of Cape Town and even the most cycle weary AWOL tourist will leave with flowers, and new friends as we cycle towards the Company Gardens and Parliament.
Written by Helen Baker
Somewhere between the history books and legends passed down from grandmother to granddaughter around the early evening homestead fire, the history of the Cape Town flower sellers remains as colourful and varied as their trading wares.
The Adderly Street bike lane is our passage from the past to the present of Cape Town and today it is the same buzzing, vibrant, gathering place for locals, tourists, traders and commuters as it was a hundred and twenty-five years ago. The flower sellers will tell you in bawdy banter about how their grandmother’s grandmother would search the mountain after dark to evade the fines of picking flowers on Table Mountain and the creative length that the flower people would go to dodge the £3 trading license of 1905. In-between ordering lunch pies, giving directions to a passersby and arranging long elegant straletizea and sunflower stems, medicinal cures are dispensed, and knowledge of fabric, food markets and perfected recipe’s are shared.
The Flower sellers have been described as the heart, soul and song of Cape Town and even the most cycle weary AWOL tourist will leave with flowers, and new friends as we cycle towards the Company Gardens and Parliament.
Written by Helen Baker
Somewhere between the history books and legends passed down from grandmother to granddaughter around the early evening homestead fire, the history of the Cape Town flower sellers remains as colourful and varied as their trading wares.
The Adderly Street bike lane is our passage from the past to the present of Cape Town and today it is the same buzzing, vibrant, gathering place for locals, tourists, traders and commuters as it was a hundred and twenty-five years ago. The flower sellers will tell you in bawdy banter about how their grandmother’s grandmother would search the mountain after dark to evade the fines of picking flowers on Table Mountain and the creative length that the flower people would go to dodge the £3 trading license of 1905. In-between ordering lunch pies, giving directions to a passersby and arranging long elegant straletizea and sunflower stems, medicinal cures are dispensed, and knowledge of fabric, food markets and perfected recipe’s are shared.
The Flower sellers have been described as the heart, soul and song of Cape Town and even the most cycle weary AWOL tourist will leave with flowers, and new friends as we cycle towards the Company Gardens and Parliament.
Written by Helen Baker
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