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WHO LIVES HERE? Marti Foster, her housekeeper Margaret Mpendu, Garçon the Beagle and two cats

WHERE Franschhoek

SIZE 1 200m²

TYPE OF SOIL Clay

When Marti Foster was on the hunt for a house to buy in Franschhoek, the two statuesque coral trees and two huge white stinkwood trees growing in this front garden immediately caught her eye.

“The garden was in a sad state when I moved in here 23 years ago but the trees in front were amazing,” she says. “There were

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