Celebrity gardener Mary Moody spoke about her passion for plants to a crowd of around 280 gardening enthusiasts at the Gloucester Soldiers Club on Wednesday July 20.
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Several interested locals joined 12 gardening clubs from around the state who had made the journey to the event hosted by the Gloucester and Districts Garden Club.
George Hoad, president Garden Clubs of Australia and president Killabakh Garden Club, gave the introduction for Mary. George was “looking pretty good seeing as he only arrived back in Australia from the United Kingdom yesterday,” said Gloucester and Districts Garden Club president Shirley Hazell.
Mary retold the story of her journey from journalism with Australian Women's Weekly in the late 1960s to a television presenter for ten years with Gardening Australia.
She entertained the crowd with funny recounts of her early gardening experiences and heartfelt stories of the interesting gardeners she met over the years.
Mary talked of her love for organic gardening which has been passed on to her four children and their families. She showed pictures of the beautiful gardens she had created around different houses she has lived in over the years.
Mary Moody has written more than 40 gardening books and four memoirs.
The gardening clubs who attended the event: Krambach, Nabiac, Ashlea Town and Country Garden Club at Wingham, Rivers and Valley G/C, Killabakh, Stroud, Christmas Bush Garden Club, Nelsons Bay, Adamstown/Kotara, Williams River, Dungog, Paterson, Walcha and Manning Organic Garden Growers Group, Taree.