Cape Green Trade Day
Two Cape Green Trade Days are held during each year, they coincide with Spring and Autumn. These days allow suppliers to the nursery industry the opportunity to promote their products and services directly to their customers. Visitors include retailers, growers, landscapers, landscape architects, estate managers, municipalities and other allied businesses. They spend the day browsing, collecting information and placing orders with the various exhibitors. Exhibitors are able see all their clients and meet potential new customers in one day, it runs from 09h00 – 15h00.
Stands are available in various sizes costing from a table at R1100 to 25m2 at R11 750. Members receive a 25% discount on their stands, making them really affordable.
Sadly the venue that we’ve used for the past 10 years, Sun Exhibits at GrandWest, is no longer available. However, we have found a wonderful venue for the August 2025 Cape Green Trade Day, Mistico Equestrian Centre, on R312 between Durbanville and Paarl.
We have an average of 65 exhibitors and over 400 visitors during the day.
Since Covid, we’ve held very upbeat, busy Trade Days. In March 2025 we celebrated our 40th successful Cape Green Trade Day. We went with the theme RUBY and celebrated with ruby cupcakes and bubbles. We also introduced gold, silver and bronze awards along with our coveted trophies.
The March 2025 stand winners were:
Plant – Airley Farms
Allied – SSA Global
The ‘Christine Faulhammer’ Trophy for the most creative stand, went to Inkanyezi Green.
THE NEXT CAPE GREEN TRADE DAY WILL BE HELD ON 27 August 2025
Events
Cape Green Forum offers a variety of events through the year, we have site visits, tours, talks, workshops & debates. In the past, site visits have included Babylonstoren, Cavalli Wine Estate, Delaire, Kirstenbosch, OZCF, Hotel Verde and the Vineyard Hotel. The tours between 1 – 4 days were Cape Peninsula, Eastern Cape, Elgin, Natal, West Coast & Gauteng. We’ve held golf days, e-workshops, discussions of deep watering, working out of South Africa, upcoming landscaping contracts, firewise planting and a couple of “show & tells”.
The Cape Green Forum usually holds a joint function with SALI (South African Landscape Institute) to end of the year, however in 2022 we held an end year celebration at Cape Garden.
These events are informal and offer members a great place to meet and discuss issues with like-minded colleagues. Members enjoy discounted entrance.
