Australian Country

Colour run

dave Roberts-Thomson confesses that he only knows four words of Dutch, so visitors to his family’s tulip farm hoping for a Dutch D&M will be sorely disappointed.

Dave and his sister, Meredith, represent the fourth generation of their family to work at their spectacularly located farm at Table Cape near Wynyard in Tasmania’s north-west. Their great-grandfather came to Australia in 1910 following a stint in the British army in India.

“He met someone on the ship on the

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