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WHILE most people spent their Boxing Day having a snooze on the couch or lying on the beach, flower farmer Sonia Bitmead was busy preparing for Valentineâs Day.
It is a serious labour of love to prepare for the most romantic day on the calendar.
Her parents Don and Lynda Currey started growing vegetables like zucchini and capsicum on their property in Karalee in the 1970s but switched to flowers after about 15 years. Currey Flowers sales manager Sonia Bitmead.
âMum wanted to,â Mrs Bitmead said.
âMy dad wanted to do broadacre crops but my mum wanted to do flowers and I guess happy wife, happy life.â