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    Get out into the garden

    Aug 26, 2019 4 minutes
    BY MAJA PALM

    READER’S GARDEN

    A Karoo garden to enjoy all year round

    Do yourself a favour when next you drive through Prince Albert: stop outside Karoo-Rust Guesthouse on the corner of Church and Luttig Streets. The garden is truly something to behold.

    In 2010, when co-owner Leoni Pretorius and her husband, Johan, started to restore this “steel-frame and steel-door house from the 1960s” so that it would better suit the historical architecture of the town, they also slowly started to tackle the garden. “We brought a lot of succulents with us from Pretoria when we moved here, and that’s how we

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