The Company's Gardens The oldest gardens in Cape Town, it is a large communal botanical garden, providing a place surrounded by trees and suitable for long walks. Take a seat on one of the benches accompanying the winding lanes, take a picnic, or get a brochure from the visitor center and take a self-tour around the park's attractions, you can also admire the flowers, herbs, and vegetables, along with a plethora of ruins, where the Rutherford Fountain still stands On the original site where it was erected in 1864, the well pump built into an oak tree dating from 1842, there is also the oldest planted tree in South Africa, saffron trees propped up on huge steel crutches.