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FABULOUS with fynbos

WHO LIVES HERE? Nola Muller Viotti WHERE Noordhoek, Cape Town SIZE OF GARDEN About 500m² TYPE OF SOIL Mainly clay

Indigenous plants take centre stage in Nola Muller Viotti’s Noordhoek garden.

And thanks to these plants, her garden is colourful and vibrant all year round.

“I can say with a fair degree of that don’t occur here naturally. With so many plants from the region, I can be sure that there’ll be something in bloom all the time. My garden also attracts an abundance of birds, butterflies, bees, lizards, leopard toads, vlei rats, field mice and the odd snake,” she says.

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