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A natural choice

WHO LIVES HERE? Jéan and llinda du Preez with their two cats, Pixel and Meko

WHERE Monaghan Farm, Lanseria

SIZE OF ERF 6 000m2

TYPE OF SOIL Clay and sandy

Ilinda du Preez wanted a garden that looked and felt like the veld. “I've always loved a natural garden, so when I stroll through mine I want to be surrounded by wildflowers and grasses just as it would be in nature,” she says.

“One of the conditions of the estate where we live is that 50% of the erf's total area must remain natural veld - the house, swimming

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