Sisters of woman lost to brain cancer have honoured their sibling by naming a dahlia variety after her, with the flower's grower saying the family is among 70 who have used his varieties as tributes.
"It was her lucky colour, the colour that brought her joy.The family had been contacted by an ABC Gippsland listener who'd heard about the farm's unique approach to naming new flowers.
If they're not being cut, dug up, and shipped around the country, Mr Hansford's dahlias are donated to flood victims or local primary schools. "You get to know which ones are the better seed parents and you just keep breeding from them," he said.It has left Mr Hansford with the enormous task of finding names for more than 400 new varieties of dahlia in the next year.
D'Lan Contemporary manager Diane de Mascarel, who worked with Ms Soni at the Melbourne art gallery, said she was full of knowledge and passion for the art of First Nations artists."We feel very strongly that her legacy will live because she was just so passionate."
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