Waves of lavender ripple and roll across the hills, staining them a shade of purple so intense it must surely be synthetic. But no, this is all-natural French lavender grown lustrous on rich soils that have transformed this hamlet – 50 kilometres north of Launceston – into one of the world’s foremost lavender-growing regions. Curvaceous rows (planted that way to better harness the rainfall and reduce erosion) glide gracefully towards the horizon, painting mountains and sky mauve as they go.