Challenging conditions and a family tragedy have played roles in the garden Jay and Sue Walker have established around their Queensland homestead.
The paddocks may be unseasonably green thanks to recent rain on Sue and James (Jay) Walker’s Cumberland station near Barcaldine in central-western Queensland, but the memory of the drought that ravaged the district for almost nine years is impossible to erase.
“The older you get, the harder it becomes,” Sue says of the loss of so many plants in the garden she and Jay have worked to established in the 48 years since they moved to…
