Well, I started off as an agricultural scientist
and I initially was doing field work in agronomy.
Well I’ve been retired in sort of quotation
marks since 1992, but during that time I think
I’ve published something like 40 or 50 research
papers.
I worked for CSIRO for almost 40 years, in
fact I started off as a technical officer
which was about the lowest rung you could
get to.
I eventually found out I was fairly good at
doing research so before I knew where I was,
I was at the top of the tree as it were.
When I came to Western Australia, I saw these
crazy plants with red stems and green flowers
and I thought, what on earth kind of a place
are we living in here.
After a while we joined, my wife and I joined
the wildflower society and built up knowledge
quite a bit eventually.
