Tasmanians recall with sheer delight the memory of a Tasmanian man, Jack Cashion, who while working as a patrolman in the early 1960s on a stretch of the Midlands Highway between Tunbridge and Oatlands, clipped a procession of topiary "rare birds and animals and other creations" along the side of the highway.
Topiaries sprang up overnight it seemed and included a steam train, a giraffe, kangaroo, a gorilla [reshaped after a car ran into the original elephant], a dinosaur, camel and birds of various sizes and shapes.
Today this tradition has been revived.
We stopped to take photographs of these unique creations.
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