Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • go! Platteland

    Get out into the garden

    Aug 26, 2019 4 minutes
    BY MAJA PALM

    READER’S GARDEN

    A Karoo garden to enjoy all year round

    Do yourself a favour when next you drive through Prince Albert: stop outside Karoo-Rust Guesthouse on the corner of Church and Luttig Streets. The garden is truly something to behold.

    In 2010, when co-owner Leoni Pretorius and her husband, Johan, started to restore this “steel-frame and steel-door house from the 1960s” so that it would better suit the historical architecture of the town, they also slowly started to tackle the garden. “We brought a lot of succulents with us from Pretoria when we moved here, and that’s how we

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from go: Platteland

    go: Platteland1 min read
    How About A Map?
    Thanks for your informative magazine, which I really love. I like travelling to interesting places and would really like it if you could include a map of South Africa on the inside of the cover for reference. One doesn’t always have a map handy. It c
    go: Platteland3 min read
    A Rainy Day In Willowmore
    We thoroughly enjoyed getting to know Willow-more in the winter of 2015 for an article that we published in that year’s Spring issue (#8). The town looked spick and span. We met interesting characters, like businessman Pepi van der Merwe, who had a h
    go: Platteland5 min read
    Crossed Wires
    I have never trusted that desolate time between two and four in the morning – the deep, pitchblack night. A time when it feels as if nothing on earth could possibly be awake; even the stones and flies and mosquitoes are asleep. (Oh, alright, this doe

    Related Books & Audiobooks