President of APSSA & 2026 ANPSA Convenor

Tim Wood joined APS in 1986 and co-founded the Northern Yorke Peninsula group in 1994. He is a life member of APS. He is currently President of APSSA and is excited to be convenor of the Amazing Arid Australia conference in Alice Springs. Tim is particularly smitten with Eremophilas and has over 200 in his garden in Kadina. He shares this obsession with fellow South Australian members of the Eremophila Study Group of which he is the convenor.

ANPSA President

Miriam was born and bred in Queensland and went to University in Brisbane in the 1970s, then onto London where she furthered her training as a research scientist. She returned to Melbourne in the mid-1980s and spent another 20 years in research before retiring to grow plants and a large Australian garden. She joined APS in 1996 and has served in committee and executive roles in her district group, APS Yarra Yarra before joining the APS Vic executive in 2019. She is the current President of ANPSA.   She loves propagating plants and has a particular interest in Australian Mint Bushes.

APS Alice Springs President

Suzanne has been the President of the Australian Plants Society Alice Springs for the past four years. Originally from NSW, she has lived for a total of 14 years in the NT where she enjoys the diversity of the environment in all its extremes as, no matter what the weather is doing, there are always native plants to discover and learn about. She has always been interested in plants and, no matter where she has lived, she has wandered around the bush and now describes herself as an 'enthusiastic amateur botanist'.

Suzanne looks forward to meeting you in Alice Springs. 

Alice was born in western NSW, the daughter of a 3rd generation farmer.  Her mother created a farm garden from scratch on pure clay (which could literally be dug up and thrown on a potter's wheel!), and a crowbar was always needed to dig holes for new plantings.  Mum quickly learnt to replace failed plants with callistemons - they survived everything thrown at them.  Moving to Adelaide in the mid 1980s, Alice revitalised several suburban gardens using mostly exotics, before creating an entirely native garden on a new houseblock at Goolwa, at the mouth of the Murray River.  This garden was featured in "Australian Plants" a few years ago.  Alice is Treasurer of APSSA and Editor of the SA state newsletter.  

Nicky has been a member of the SGAP / Australian Plants Society for close on 40 years and has been to almost all the biennial conferences since her introduction to the ASGAP 1995 Conference which was held in Ballarat and ASGAP 2009 held in Geelong when she was involved on the organizing committees. Nicky is a keen traveller and loves exploring all the corners of Australia, has a wide interest in natural history and bird watching, and loves catching up with all the terrific people associated with the different native plant societies.

Vice President Australian Plants Society o South Australia

Hans is currently Vice President of the Australian Plants Society of SA, after having served as President for the last two years. Born in Switzerland, Hans migrated to Canberra for a two-year job and fell in love with Australian plants and the wide open spaces, especially the Outback, which he still traverses as often as possible. He never returned to his native country, instead moving to Melbourne and later to the Adelaide Hills. He has established a large garden with a wide variety of native plants on his 10-acre property. In the course of his career as an academic researcher in chemistry, he investigated antibacterial and antifungal chemicals extracted from Eremophila species. Now retired, he loves propagating plants, including grafting those that don’t like the local soils.