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cactus celebration

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Peak flowering season is from mid-October to mid-November when the garden is ablaze with colour and packed with visitors.

GARDEN PROFILE

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Jim and Julie Hall welcome thousands of visitors each year to see their cactus garden, the biggest in Australia.

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Jim Hall comes from a long line of English gardeners and his grandfather developed prize-winning gardens in Victoria's Goulburn Valley. But it was Jim's father, John, who led him down a different garden path to a passion for succulents and cacti in particular.

“Dad worked on dairy and pig farms all over NSW and Victoria and his hobby was growing cacti,” Jim recalls. “Whenever he moved, he took his cacti with him. I saw the genuine fascination people had for his plants so when Dad decided to sell

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