Fields of flowers
WHO LIVES HERE? Jaco and Sophia van Heerden with their children, Sebastian (9) and Jeanette (7)
WHERE Murraysburg, Western Cape
SIZE 3 800 m² (roses) and 3 780 m² (roses and cut flowers)
TYPE OF SOIL Loam
Sophia van Heerden of Murraysburg isn’t afraid of hard work. As a testament to her tenacious spirit, she managed – in just under three years – to cultivate more than 10 000 rose bushes and row upon row of annuals on barren soil in a notoriously hot Karoo town.
“It was an uphill battle,” she concedes. “In the beginning I had to do everything myself: plant the rose bushes, fertilise them, spray them, pick the blooms and make up bunches to
