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ARTIST BARB SOMERVAILLE FINDS PLENTY OF CREATIVE INSPIRATION GROWING IN HER SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND GARDEN.

WORDS JESSICA BELLEF

If anyone can demonstrate the truth of the phrase, “patience is a virtue,” Barb Somervaille can. Barb and her husband Andrew live at Tallowood, an 11-hectare property in Southern Queensland’s Ravensbourne, on Jagera, Giabal and Jarowair land. They purchased the bare plot with two dams in 1998 and built a double-storey, barn-style home in a swift nine weeks. The garden, however, is a long-term project that Barb has chipped away at while homeschooling the couple’s eight children, now aged 18 to 35. “Moving out of Toowoomba to the country was a lifestyle choice, and it was my career choice to homeschool our children full-time,” says the powerhouse mum. However, when Barb and Andrew’s youngest, Daniel, began year nine at school in Toowoomba five years ago, Barb enrolled in a horticulture…

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