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From boom to bloom

After five seasons cooped up in a spaceship, Frankie Adams says it was nice to get out in the garden.

The New Zealand-Samoan actor and Shortland Street graduate stars in The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, an adaptation of Queensland author Holly Ringland’s novel about flora, fires and family secrets set mostly on a botanical farm in rural Oz. The show was shot mainly in northern New South Wales with an excursion to the Northern Territory.

The 29-year-old plays Candy Blue, one of the waifs and strays who have become an all-female

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