Guest Speaker – Alex George – Musings from my garden

Alex worked at the Western Australian Herbarium for 21 years, which gave him the opportunity to do fieldwork throughout the State, discovering many new species. He spent 1968 as Australian Botanical Liaison Officer at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. In 1981 he moved to Canberra as editor of the Flora of Australia for 12 years. He then returned to Perth as a botanical and editorial consultant. He is now retired but continues with his interests in botanical history and studying our wildflowers.

Alex will show how he watches his garden, how he sees colours and shapes, the changes in plants during the year as they put out new growth, buds, flowers and fruit, go dormant in summer, how fauna use them, the bark of trees, keeping a herbarium of pressed specimens and, yes, when a plant dies.