SA Garden and Home

Riverside ROMANCE

WHO LIVES HERE

Maryanne and Alan Watkins, a pharmacist, who own and work in the local pharmacy.

THE GARDEN

A two-acre garden on a 20-hectare smallholding in the Underberg where Alan hobby-farms Dorper sheep.

“I still remember the excitement when Alan brought me here to look at the property 17 years ago,” says Maryanne Watkins. “It was grazing land, quite wild, and the steeper portion had been previously under timber. Alan cut through a hedge

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