TRAFALGAR Garden Club members visited the Mitchell farm in Bushy Vales last month where an experimental tea tree growing project has been established.
David Mitchell gave an amusing and instructive talk and showed the small seedlings which, in the space of 18 months, grow into trees ready for oil pressing.
His father Terry showed members round the nursery behind the shed, and had some enlightening comments of his own to add.
Members were then invited to the adjacent farm where Meredith Street (Terry’s daughter) and her husband Michael live.
Tea was served in their water-wise garden, where members saw interesting plantings, including a collection of succulents in pots on the verandah wall.
Terry’s wife Jenny gave a short talk on the building of the homestead in the 19th century where timber from the wreck of the ship the ‘Fascadale’ which ran aground on the rocks on the nearby coast was used.
