Complex sentence: She grew up on a smallholding in a mixed racial area near Durban with her grandparents, and spent her childhood helping her family, and cutting and preparing roses for sale to the florists in the district.
Split into simpler sentences: She grew up on a smallholding in a mixed racial area near Durban with her grandparents. She spent her childhood helping her family, cutting and preparing roses for sale to the florists in the district.