Dargan bush fires

On the afternoon of December 21 after fighting fires for a number of weeks straight, mother nature decided to show her absolute might and belted our area with a wild fire from hell. Almost half of my RFS colleagues at the Clarence Dargan Fire Brigade lost their houses, I was a little luckier, saved the house but lost the nursery.

We lost our green houses and hot house, a heap of propagated stock and virtually all  of our shelf stock. While we had sprinklers going all through the fire attack, the intense heat killed anything that wasn't already burnt to death. 

We love our native plants, we love the bush and we enjoy working in our garden and also helping others who share that passion. While living in the bush has its drawbacks like what we have just been through, I love this place, I love the people and I love gardening. My wife Patricia has built a beautiful garden over the past 10 or so years here in Dargan and on that horrid Saturday it was all gone in just an hour. We will rebuild and make it better than before.

We are committed to providing quality products that is suited to your garden, if we think it will not grow where you are, we will not want to sell it to you. 

It will take a while to rebuild but when we are ready to go, please come and visit, look around and hopefully buy. The drought is hopefully coming to an end shortly and we will return to better times. 

Before the fires came, my garden was stressed and dying in a number of places, now the bush fire has hit, I have virtually nothing. My plan is to research better ways to beat the bush fires, better ways to set out a garden in this harsh bush land and build something amazing. 

We are back in business, come and visit.