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    ALL IN THE FAMILY

    Oct 02, 2019 3 minutes
    WORDS CHRISTINE REID
    PHOTOGRAPHY
    DANNY WOOTTON

    EUCALYPTS, STRAIGHT AND TALL, march up the hillsides; ribbons of chocolate-coloured soil are broken by brightly coloured rectangles in neat patterns across farmland; the mountains are blue ridges on the horizon and the air is fresh.

    The town of Silvan, located in a picturesque pocket of rural Victoria, is home to a legion of bulb breeders and flower growers. Among them is the Tesselaar family.

    Cees and Johanna Tesselaar arrived in Australia

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