As one travels down Heart Lane in the Beulah community, he or she is greeted by lush fruit trees that line the road that leads down to a surprising end — a beautiful pink Victorian farm house which Randy and Angela Shur call home.

The Shurs moved to Surry County in 2005 from Long Island, N.Y., after a farming accident left Randy Shur with three crushed vertebrae. They loved their Victorian home in New York so much that they decided to have one just like it built on their farm.

The couple married in 1996 and have two children, Melanie, 13, and Brandon, 9. Angela has a grown daughter, Jamie, from a previous marriage.

For 30 years, Randy worked in an irrigation business and had a nursery with exotic trees.

When the couple decided to move here to be closer to Angela’s family, Randy came to North Carolina to scout for land from Cary to Asheville. But it was the farm that is now called Rolling Hills that reminded both he and his wife of home. It had been a horse farm and there wasn’t a tree on it, Angela said. Now the property is covered with many varieties of fruit trees and the Blue Ridge Mountains can be seen in the distance.

“When we were dating, we used to go to the mountains. We’ve always liked the mountains. When he got me on the property, I started to walk and it was like deja-vous, it was just like our property up north. I walked all the way down to the creek and I decided right then that this was going to be home,” Angela said.

She said one of the things that struck her is when they were leaving the farm, the real estate people were waving good-bye. She said people just don’t do that where they were from.

“That blew me away and I felt very much at home,” she said. “This is what we always wanted.”

Angela said her husband has “the greenest thumb ever.”

She said before they even met, she used to drive by his house every day and marvel at how green things were on his property.

“He’s very good at what he does and I knew the orchard would be phenomenal,” she said.

The orchard has 12 varieties of peaches, six types of plums and 10 varieties of apples. There are 1,200 fruit trees on their farm. In addition to delivering to local businesses, the Shurs sell cut flowers and the fruit at local farmers markets. She said they are not doing any “pick-your own” right now, but if anyone wants fruit, they can just give them a call and they will be happy to pick as much as anyone wants to buy from them. Their fruit starts coming in in June and keeps coming in until the end of August.

Another project the couple has taken on is renting out a cabin that is on their property. Randy used pine from local saw mills to cover the exterior and some of the interior walls as well.

The couple has nine cats both indoors and out. They also keep peacocks as pets.

She said the story behind their home is an unusual one in that they both fell in love with the same house in New York. One day he asked her what type of house she wanted, and they started talking about the same Victorian house. They went to the house and asked the owners if they would give them the architect’s number. So they had a Victorian house built to suit their specifications in New York. In the front hallway of their home here, they have a picture of their home in New York and other than the added tower on the side, it’s hard to tell the two houses apart.

“I love the house. You could keep me here forever,” she said.

In the next 10 years, they are planning to build a small log cabin on the property and turn their Victorian into a bed and breakfast.

All over their property, there are hearts everywhere. Randy said he got the notion of the hearts from a cousin that always used to cut out paper hearts and give them to people. Through the years, he has been giving his wife love notes on cut-out paper hearts. He even built a heart into the stone fireplace in their home’s front entrance. They also named the road on their property Heart Lane.

The Shurs are active with the Beulah 4-H. Randy is a Boy Scout troop leader. Angela volunteered at Cedar Ridge Elementary School so much that she was asked to become a substitute teacher there.

Both of their children help out on the farm and at the farmers markets. Brandon gets up at 4 a.m. on Saturdays to go with his father to the Dixie Classic Farmer’s Market in Winston-Salem. They both believe in instilling good values into their children.

Contact Mondee Tilley at mtilley@mtairynews.com or at 719-1930.