Initially they sold 20-pound (9 kilogram) bags of seed that were stored in the linen cupboard and then the laundry. Their house was one of the first on that side of Red Hill and there was a sheep paddock across the road. For 10 years, the business was run out of the family home in Dalrymple Street in Narrabundah. Unable to find the seed he wanted for a lawn in Canberra, Les bought seed from Brunnings seed store in Melbourne and Betty became the ACT distributor. When he graduated from Melbourne University in 1959, the family moved to Canberra with the Department of Army. Her father, Les Evans, after returning from World War II, and with a wife, Betty, and their four children, studied economics part-time while working at Victoria Barracks and his father's drapery business. Landscape architect Amanda Evans has an interesting plant heritage.
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