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I live half an hour (by car) inland from Devonport on the way to Cradle Mountain.
Other household members are:
Wife: Sue and cat: Enus.
We live on top of this hill with stunning views of Mt. Roland and Cradle Mountain, Mount Emmet and Pelion West in the far distance. Opposite is a strip of the distant Bass Strait with an occasional small white box visible: one of the Spirits Of Tasmania heading for, or coming from Melbourne. We also look at Black Bluff, which means that we pay for our views with frequent buffetings from pretty mean South-Westerlies and Southerlies that take a run up from South America via the Antarctic and over Black Bluff.....
My main interests in the garden are edible plants and trees and my obsession for about 20 years have been my saffron crocuses (which I call my babies). I started with trying to grow them from seed: with no success. I then came across a few bulbs in a local nursery. I eventually realised that I had them growing in the wrong position, because they hardly had any flowers for years. After I shifted them to the sunniest position on the block and mixed a fair bit of 2mm potting gravel with our red soil, they have performed really well. Just one year, when we had an unusually wet summer, I lost quite a few bulbs and another year when I dug them up and stored them out of the ground while they were dormant, they sulked and didn�t flower that year.I gradually extended the crocus beds over the years and last year I proudly harvested 31g of saffron from 5500 flowers. We use it in our cooking and as presents for friends.

I live in: Australia

My zone is: Tas Aust

My Birthday is August 22 .

My favorite forum 1 is Cornucopia.

My favorite forum 2 is Herbs.

First registered on February 12,2004.