She’s had enough of derogatory comments about Robertson’s Big Potato and decided to do something about it.

So Judy and her husband Allan went and rallied friends, neighbours and businesses on a weekend working bee to spice up Robertson’s much-maligned spud.

“It’s the International Year of the Potato,” Mrs Hollis said. “The time had come to spruce it up a bit. It was looking a little bit shabby.”

With Moss Vale Guides and their parents lending a hand, volunteers planted Japanese maple and weeping cherry trees relocated from the Hollises’ garden, mowed the park, spread mulch and decorative gravel given by the Resource Recovery Centre, and rolled gravel paths with the help of a roller loaned by Rentquip.

The Robertson Garden Club has already planted garden beds with daffodils for a springtime show.

For the full story see the Southern Highland News, Friday, July 4

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