Surine and Peu Bezuidenhout have lived on a farm on the banks of the Orange River near Upington for 35 years. They cultivate roses and table grapes – and it has turned out to be a good way to wrestle with the extremes of the Northern Cape climate.
Why a grass garden?
I had a commercial rose and herb garden for 12 years, but the needs of our Friesian horses made us replace the garden with a lucerne pasture. Just behind our house is a rocky outcrop