Always by hand, Bill Rhodin beds down some of the thousands of Tulip Top bulbs for their winter quasi-slumber. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong
Mother Nature offers Bill and Pat Rhodin a very narrow window of opportunity and for three long years that window has been all but closed.
However, out at their home at Tulip Top, just off the Federal Highway north of Canberra and one of the most low-key but spectacular tourist attractions in our region, there’s optimism in the air that this spring will be one of the best ever.
Tens of thousands of plumb little tulip bulbs are being bedded down now and…