Photographs Francois Oberholster
Jean Retief in the colourful garden she started at Van Loveren in 1939.
Nico and Shan Retief, their son Bussell and his wife Anne-Marie all live side by side on the Van Loveren family farm, where their two gardens are as good as one.
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