Stephen Ryan
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Ellis Rowan, Erythrina variegata L. synonym Erthrina indica Lam., pale flowered form, family Fabaceae, Queensland, 1891?, nla.cat-vn1317791
Stephen Ryan is an horticulturalist, nurseryman, collector, prolific writer and award-winning radio broadcaster and TV presenter and is the newly appointed Patron for the Royal Horticultural Society of Victoria (RHSV). He is also the President of the Mt Macedon Horticultural Society, one of the oldest gardening clubs in Victoria.
Stephen lectures and holds seminars both in Australia as well as overseas. As a plant hunter and traveller he has travelled to many places in the world.
He has published three books on rare plants that have received rave reviews and his manual contains over 2000 plant entries of rare plants available in temperate Australia. He also contributed to the two large tomes produced in Australia Botanica and more recently Flora. Stephen’s garden and nursery Dicksonia Rare Plants hold three national plant collections, Cornus, Sambucus and Acanthus, for the Garden Plants Conservation Association of Australia.
The Horti-Culturalists
Join Stephen over a delicious hot soup lunch for a talk on Ellis Rowan and the Ellis Rowan project.
(Vegan, vegetarian and non vegetarian)
Sir John Longstaff, Ellis Rowan Memorial Portrait, 1926, nla.cat-vn1901331