I'm a Wollongong boy, born July 16, 1945, on the day the world welcomed the nuclear age. It went one way and I went another. Born into a dairy farming family of Nowra, schooling away, working for my family on their farms until finally offered a partnership with my dad to buy an island in the Shoalhaven River. Farming life on my own slowly converting to horticulture, nurseryman and gardener. My gardening genes were no doubt handed to me from my mother's family. They were good genes.
I ended up living in a shed on an inground Canary Island Date Palm plantation I established at Terara up the road from the original family farm. I landscaped exhibition villages for project builder, Beechwood Homes and became conversant in Feng Shui for garden design.
I found a form of harmony living close to nature and accepting its bounds. A story of transition from that of naivety with the land to becoming a partner with its mystic ways.
