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    PASTORAL PERFECTION

    Aug 21, 2017 3 minutes
    INTERIOR DESIGN BY Karen Roos PHOTOGRAPHY BY Greg Cox/Bureaux PRODUCED BY Sven Alberding WRITTEN BY Sally Rutherford

    heavy in the late afternoon South African sunshine, hums with the work of countless bees in the garden of Babylonstoren, a family-owned and run inn and restaurant. Here owners Karen Roos and Koos Bekker grow over three hundred varieties of edible or medicinal plants in the extraordinary gardens inspired by the farms that resupplied ships passing the Cape of Good Hope in 1692, (citizen) Pieter van der Byl. Today, the (farmyard) and its structures remain among the finest unspoiled examples of traditional Cape Dutch architecture.

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