The Bowen Island Garden Club kicks up its speaker series on January 16, at 1 p.m. with Bill Terry from the Sunshine Coast who will talk about The lizard of Oz and other stories of plant hunting in Southeast Australia.
Bill Terry's presentation will provide a break from winter gloom. The lizard of Oz and other stories of plant hunting in Southeast Australia is a summary of a month in Australia, exactly a year ago.Terry will touch on the exploits of the great Joseph Banks, the botanist who was the first European to discover Australia's remarkable flora.He will then take the audience on a photographic safari, from the hills near Canberra, to the alpine meadows of the Southern Alps and along the coast of New South Wales.
After a 35-year career in CBC Radio and Television production, Terry retired to the Sunshine Coast with his wife, Rosemary. Since then, he has strenuously applied himself to creating the perfect garden. His specialty is Asiatic poppies (Meconopsis) of which he has the most diverse collection in North America. This passion led him to write the book Blue Heaven: Encounters with the Blue Poppy (TouchWood Editions, Victoria 2009). The sequel, Hunting the Wild Blue Poppy, will be published this fall. This is Terry's second visit to the Bowen Island Garden Club but hopefully not the last.
AINSLE MANSON
B.I. GARDEN CLUB
