Online talk: Wild country plants and garden design
16 July @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm AEST
The Southern Highlands branch presents an online talk by John Blay – Wild Country Plants and Garden Design
John Blay, is a writer and naturalist, who was born at Parramatta in 1944. He has written extensively about the bush and its people in prose, drama and poetry. His Native Plant Gardeners Almanac was a boon for Australian gardeners and his trilogy of Back Country, On Track, and Wild Nature features an epic series of bushwalks through the forests and ranges of SE Australia.
In 1982 a new species of wattle, Acacia blayana, was named in his honour. He has also discovered a new species of eucalyptus. He collaborated with Warren Foster (a Nina Crone Writing Fund recipient) on the article in the Australian History Garden of July 2021 on The Bundian Way. These days his focus is on writing, doing presentations and exploring the expanded use of native plants.
Timings 5-6 pm
Cost: $10 per person.
Book: at Humanitix. You will be sent a link after 14 July.
Proceeds will go to support the Nina Crone Writing Fund.
The Nina Crone Writing Fund
Nina Crone OAM (1934–2007) was an Australian gardening writer, broadcaster, teacher and principal of Melbourne Girls Grammar School. From 1982 to 1997, under the nom de plume Alison Dalrymple, Nina wrote garden and plant history articles for The Age. She was editor of Australian Garden History from 2001 to 2006. Following her death, a fundraiser was held to establish a writing award in her memory. The Nina Crone Award for Australian Student Garden History Writing encouraged new writing by funding four recipients. Their writing has been published in Australian Garden History (AGH).