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50 Years of the Sheriffmuir Garden in South Australia’s Mt Gambier

Gardening runs through the veins of South Australian Betty McKee who, together with her husband John, has transformed a bare block into something truly spectacular.

For Betty McKee, gardening was just what you did. In the 1900s, her grandfather had a vegie garden and orchard, from which he’d sell produce, her mother was a “fanatical” gardener and florist, and all of Betty’s aunties had lovely, large gardens of their own. So when Betty and husband John acquired the corner block on her parent’s farm in South Australia’s Mt Gambier, naturally, they set to work establishing…

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