October brings a magnificent, colourful display across the paddocks of the famous Table Cape Tulip Farm.
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The property attracts thousands of visitors each spring as the tulips burst to life but, to the owners, the most important thing is what lies below.
The main focus of the North-West Coast farm is growing bulbs to sell on a wholesale scale and taking care of the land by planting suitable crops.
"We're actually bulb growers so the flowers, we don't really get a direct income from them apart from tourism," said property manager, Dave Roberts-Thomson.
"Once the flowers or the petals are about to fall off, we actually de-head them and the flowers end up just in the row. They're sort of mulched back into the soil, which is a bit of a surprise to most people," Mr Roberts-Thomson said.
The family business sits on 90 hectares surrounded by some of Tasmania's most spectacular scenery and leases another 35ha, operating on three levels - traditional cropping, flower bulbs and tourism.
It grows 6ha of tulips, another 6ha of liliums, 7ha of Dutch iris and 2ha of hyacinths, as its major bulb crops. Standard cropping includes peas, poppies, pyrethrum, wheat and barley. The farm has also introduced some specialist species such as saia oats.
"We're growing saia oats and we're growing some buckwheat, tic beans, and we're growing all of these for cover crop seed," Mr Roberts-Thomson said.
"Especially saia oats we're growing for the seed, but there's also some sort of health benefits from that too. Very low chemical inputs and the ability to improve our soil with that.
"None of our cover crops ever have any fertilizer, but our cash crops are still fertilized, fairly traditional kind of amounts.
"Where we have the ability to reduce or eliminate chemical fertilizer options we do.
"We're always working on or trying to improve techniques to farm in a more sustainable kind of way.
"It's not always translating into extra money in the bank, but it has made life easier. And so we're pretty happy with that."
His father, Paul, sister, Meredith, and mother, Bronwyn, are assisted by 12 full-time staff. This is the matriarch's busy time of the year.
"Mum, she is more or less retired apart from a very brief, a one month flurry, at this time of the year with tourism things," he said.
"But we really do have a very dedicated and long serving staff that sort of make the complexity of what we do function."
The farm does harvest about 20pc for cut flowers at their peak, but the bulb harvest is quite lengthy compared to other crops, running from December through Christmas and into the new year.
The bulbs are lifted into boxes once they are dormant, when the green top has dried back to the soil. They are then dried aggressively in sheds, processed by size and quality and shipped out.
Table Cape has been in business for around 30 years, but is constantly changing with the times - and trends.
"We're always growing different bulbs, it would be uncommon for us not to have 20 or 30 new varieties on the farm every year," Mr Roberts-Thomson said.
"Tulips are much different to most other agricultural crops in that they are dictated by trends and what people want, and what they want is not always what grows well.
"Most of the time, it's always the one we don't quite have enough of."