If you think moving house is a tough gig, spare a thought for Clare Valley couple Kay and Walter Duncan, who moved not just contents, but an entire building and their commercial rose-growing business, when they relocated from Watervale to Sevenhill in 1999.
Walter had grown up at Hughes Park, his family’s grand Clare property, which is featured earlier in this issue on page 30. For more than 20 years, he ran a commercial heritage rose garden on the farm. But Hughes Park and its large heritage stone homestead belonged to his family’s trust, so in the late 1990s, Kay and Walter decided to make way for the next generation and buy a place where they could establish a property of their own.
