Gardening in South Africa: The Flower Garden — Una Van der Spuy

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Third Impression, Juta, 1959, Hardback with removable protective plastic wrap – Gardening – 286pp.

As a young wife and mother in the 1940s, Una set about creating a garden worthy of Old Nectar, the historic Cape Dutch homestead she owned with her husband, General Kenneth Reid van der Spuy, in the picturesque Jonkershoek Valley, Stellenbosch.
She had little knowledge of plants, but by the 1950s had developed a garden that would be declared a national monument, the only private garden to have been so honoured to date. From 1950, she opened the garden each spring to raise funds for various charities.

Ten years after she arrived at Old Nectar, Una started contributing gardening articles to magazines and, a few years later, wrote her first book, Gardening in Southern Africa.

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