You do not need a trip to the Cape Winelands to see a little of Babylonstoren this spring.

Until 14 September, Hyde Park Corner’s Centre Court is home to Babylonstoren in Bloom, a garden-inspired installation built around one of the farm’s most distinctive features: its winding Puff Adder walkway. Babylonstoren confirms that its smaller Joburg version runs from 2 to 14 September.

But among all the greenery and bright clivias, there is one flower worth looking for.

Meet The Hyde Park Double

The Hyde Park Double is being showcased as South Africa’s first double clivia. Independent clivia grower André Swart bred and grew it, and it is part of the clivia display accompanying the Babylonstoren installation.

What makes it immediately different is the flower itself. Instead of the more familiar single arrangement of petals, the double form produces a much fuller bloom.

It is a fitting centrepiece for a display built around clivias. These South African plants are also one of Babylonstoren’s spring highlights, appearing seasonally along the original Puff Adder walkway on the farm.

What’s a Puff Adder doing in a garden?

No snakes are required.

The name belongs to Babylonstoren’s 70-metre shaded garden walkway, which winds alongside a stream beneath a curved lattice structure. The planting changes with the seasons, with clivias taking their turn in spring.

An even better detail hides underfoot in the original Cape Winelands version. Its mosaic floor contains more than 360,000 river pebbles, took more than nine months to lay and includes a tiny mouse hidden in the design, resting inside the “snake’s” stomach.

The Hyde Park Corner installation is a smaller interpretation rather than a full recreation, but it gives Joburg visitors a glimpse of the idea without the trip south.

More than flowers

The installation also brings part of Babylonstoren’s shop to Johannesburg.

Visitors can browse a selection of bath and body products, home fragrances, linen, décor, honey, pantry favourites and gifts inspired by the farm and its gardens.

Babylonstoren in Bloom forms part of Hyde Park Corner’s wider Made for the Season spring campaign and is the farm’s first activation of this kind in a shopping centre.

Before You Go

• What: Babylonstoren in Bloom
• When: 2 to 14 September 2026
• Time: 09:00 to 18:00
• Where: Centre Court, Hyde Park Corner, Johannesburg
• Cost: Free entry

The Bottom Line

There are plenty of reasons to stop at the display, but The Hyde Park Double gives plant lovers something they will not usually see among the familiar orange clivias.

Part of Babylonstoren’s clivia collection can be traced to plants bred by clivia enthusiast Dr Hans Roos in his Sandton garden. Those plants later flourished at Babylonstoren and became part of its celebrated clivia displays.

Now, with Babylonstoren in Bloom at Hyde Park Corner, some of that connection has come full circle