A CHANGE OF PLACE

A COUPLE MOVE 600KM UP THE COAST AND TAKE AN ORCHARD OF FRUIT TREES WITH THEM TO A COMPLETELY NEW CLIMATE

Words Jana Holmer

Friends and family thought Donna and Kevin Easton were crazy when they relocated from Dalyellup to Woorree, an eastern suburb of Geraldton in Western Australia. She resolved to move her dragonfruit plants there, too, as well as many varieties of figs and other fruit trees she’d spent years collecting. She did the move in three loads, a 14-hour round trip each time. “You don’t relocate for friends and family”, says Donna. But, she might have added, you do take your favourite plants with you. The only one she’s acquired since moving is an edible hedge, Carissa ‘Desert Star’, a glossy, hardy shrub that can withstand Geraldton’s hot winds. While her trees were re-establishing, Donna started a hairdressing business on the property called Batavia Cutz, named after the most famous of the coast’s many shipwrecks,…

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