Table Cape is always lovely with its lighthouse and its stunning views over Bass Straight and the North West Coast, but its even more spectacular at this time of year because the tulips are in bloom. Although the Annual Tulip Festival has been cancelled for 2020, I've heard that people are still coming to the Tulip Farm in droves, even without the usual interstate and overseas tourists. I'm here early as soon as it opens and manage to catch owner, David Roberts -Thomson, for a brief chat before the crowds come. Early in the morning at the Table Cape Tulip Farm Fields of colour wherever you look David and several generations of his family have been farming here for over a century and they have been growing bulbs - mostly tulips but also Liliums and Dutch irises, for the past forty years. They grow about one hundred different varieties of tulips and sometimes, especially during the GFC, they have even exported tulips back to Holland. Although the tulips are spectacul...
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