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  • The Australian Women's Weekly

    Stories of Comfort and joy

    Dec 02, 2020 4 minutes

    Spring rain

    After drought and fire and heartache, Mandy Reid’s life, like her garden, is beginning to bloom again. Samantha Trenoweth meets Tenterfield’s favourite flower farmer.

    The sight of Mandy Reid out in her garden with secateurs, picking roses for a fresh Christmas wreath, is glorious. The smile on her face is pure sunshine and such a contrast to the tears in her eyes when last we spoke. The last time The Weekly caught up with her, Mandy was midway through 2019 on the tail-end of a devastating drought, and her garden was dying.

    “It’s been tough,” she told us. “Spring and summer were

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