Melanie

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About me

Gender Female
Occupation Horticultural Photojournalist
Location I garden at the foothills of the Macedon Ranges, Victoria, Australia
Introduction I qualified at Burnley Horticultural College in the early 1980's. Horticulture has been in the family for over a century so it was obviously predestined! I have gardened here for over 19 years. Initially it was really wet, then we had over a decade of drought and now the drought has broken. I've had some terrific highs and just as many lows, but the journey has always been challenging - you never know just what is around the next corner.
Interests Besides gardening? Weeeellll there is camping, cycling and travelling. Current obsession is genealogy.
Favorite Movies The Secret Garden (of course!)
Favorite Music Anything from the 70's and 80's (whoa that dates me!) but my girls have opened my ears to Cold Play and Snow Patrol.
Favorite Books Anything by Michael Pollan, Tim Flannery, Christopher Lloyd or Jared Diamond (doesn't that sound high falutin'!)

You've just inherited a manufacturing plant that specializes in plastics. What are you going to make?

A plastic that is fully biodegradable of course!