Phe and Ken Viljoen, owners of Ashburton Lavender Farm in the Central West region of NSW, grow rows of Lavandula x intermedia ‘Grosso’ and Lavandula x intermedia ‘Super’.
SOMETIMES LIFE HANDS you a curveball. For Phe and Ken Viljoen, it was a sweet-smelling one. In 2016, the couple were living in Sydney and struggling to get a foot on the property ladder, so they widened their search to regional areas. The first property that caught their eye was an idyllic, 20-hectare farm in Millthorpe in the Central West region of New South Wales, with geese, ducks, a rambling garden – and 9000 lavender plants.
