About the Author

Glen Wilson was born in Adelaide in 1927. He has been involved with landscape design and construction for more than 50 years. He was a Foundation Member of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects and is now a Fellow of the Institute. His lecturing career embraces working part-time with Horticulture students at Oakleigh Technical School; part-time at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology with Graduate Diploma students of Landscape Architecture; and full-time at what is now the University of Canberra with undergraduate students in the four-year Landscape Architecture course.

Glen has earned a reputation as a respected writer on landscape matters through two books and many articles, including series in the journal Landscape Australia and in the Melbourne Age.

His hobbies include photography and creative writing, with two of his plays produced by a leading Melbourne repertory company (his daughter Sallyann Wilson is a Melbourne actress) and two small volumes of short stories published by Ginninderra Press.

Collecting bottlebrush (Callistemon) has been his special interest over 30 years and he holds the registration of a number of bottlebrush cultivars. He also raises hybrid Callistemon and has originated several that await naming and registration.

Benalla, Victoria, has become Glen’s retirement home.