The phrase "garden route" is a commonly used term in written English.
It refers to a scenic and well-designed route, often for travel or sightseeing, that highlights beautiful gardens or landscapes. Example: "The drive along the garden route was filled with breathtaking views of colorful flowers and lush greenery."
Where to stay The Garden Route has no end of accommodation, from campsites to luxury lodges.
An international adventure race, set within the Garden Route, South Africa, was used as a case study.
South Africa is also perfect for road trips, with the famous Garden Route delivering spectacular seascapes and charming coastal towns.
Often ranking just below is a tour of the Garden Route, the country's spectacularly varied southern coast.
It takes in shark cage diving, the gorgeous Garden Route and living with the people of the Kalahari desert.
Remote from the pulsing traffic along the Garden Route, we drifted with the current, deep inside the Tsitsikamma's enveloping tranquillity.
At the Berkshire Botanical Garden (Routes 102 and 183; 413-298-3926; www.berkshirebotanical.org), a program called Cultivate, offered in conjunction with the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, features works that interact with, and sometimes interrupt, the bucolic grounds.
It was only because my poor husband - who spent much of his childhood in South Africa and loves the bush as I love Soho - was beginning to despair that my impression of that country would forever be restricted to the perimeter of the wine and garden routes around Cape Town, that I eventually agreed to try it again.
John Wood, a banker who with his partner, Malcolm Grant, bought and renovated the Chelsea town house, went the vertical-garden route out of necessity.
Much of the forestry is protected by the well-organised Garden Route National Park, which is divided into the Wilderness, Knysna Lakes and Tsitsikamma sections.
The gardens, off Route 1 three miles northeast of Kennett Square, will have changing fall displays through Nov. 19.
