Australian Country

a bush oasis

“So many times, you think the landscape will never recover, but it does. You just have to be very, very patient

The paddocks may be unseasonably green thanks to recent rain on Sue and James (Jay) Walker’s Cumberland station near Barcaldine in central-western Queensland, but the memory of the drought that ravaged the district for almost nine years is impossible to erase.

“The older you get, the harder it becomes,” Sue says of the loss of so many plants in the garden she and Jay have worked to established in the 48 years since they moved to the family property.

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