My background profession in healthcare and emergency medicine, however since childhood I have had a life-long interest in natural history and am an amateur botanist, horticulturalist and a keen naturalist having particular passionate interests in Australian botany, unusual and architectural life forms.
Australia has always been a unique place of inspiration for me in terms of its geographical isolation and history of the flora and fauna and over 20 or so years, I have furthered my experience, honed my knowledge about, propagated and grown the iconic Australian grass-trees, Kingia and Xanthorrhoea.
Australian grass-trees have been underrepresented for so long, much information on these charimatic plants is scattered in research papers and generic botanical literature, my aim is to address and over the past 20 years+ I have been working upon incorporating all the current known Xanthorrhoea species including the monospecific Kingia into a single encyclopaedic reference guide. Among the contents will include morphology and how to identify species, anthropogenic ethnobotany, plant and animal associations, cultivation, threats and conservation and a full species list… this remains work in progress.