GEOFF Gardner and his late wife packed up the car and hit the road from Taree on the New South Wales Coast some 14 years ago but only made it as far as Broken Hill.

“We’d had a big wholesale nursery on a place called Oxley Island near Taree,” Mr Gardner said.

“Our main supplier was Kmart, but then Kmart went out of plants, so instead of trying to chase more markets we just shut up shop t...