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Not terribly far from where I live are The Dandenongs. Some of you may remember some posts I did on these mountains a while back when Sarah was down. Basically it's freaking beautiful. Full of little quirky country towns, rainforest and just all-round awesomeness. There is a FABULOUS nursery up there called Tesselar. Primarily they sell bulbs but you can get other stuff there too. It was started by a Dutch couple YEARS ago, they are now FILTHY rich and totally awesome :) Every year they open up the nursery for the Tulip Festival. I've been wanting to go for ages but always worked through, not this year, god damn it! Determined I would go and took mum and dad with me because they really wanted to go but couldn't afford it. So I paid. Had a ball!

I reckon they look like candy! There was a full-on MANIA for tulips in Europe some time back. People would literally KILL each other for bulbs. They spent vast fortunes to obtain them. These people would have had heart attacks and died at the nursery today :D