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Council Officers full addresses are sent to Members every year.
Lyndy Broder, President, USA
Lyndy Broder has been a member of the International Clematis Society for over twenty years and is a frequent contributor to the journal and Clematis of the Month on the website. An avid gardener who over the past thirty years has transformed a ten acre cow pasture south of Atlanta, Georgia into a three acre formal garden, one acre for native pollinator perennials, one acre woodlands and five acres of native grasslands. Her formal garden contains several hundred clematis hybrids and has been filmed for the HGTV show "A Gardener's Diary " featuring clematis. Lyndy's passion for native plants has led to an expertise in native clematis of the viorna section. She has an extensive collection of traditional and new species.
Lyndy has served on the board of directors of I.Cl.S. for twelve years as council member and vice president. Other gardening interests have included serving as the President of the Georgia Perennial Plant Association, serving on the Board of Directors for the American Hydrangea Society and Georgia Master Gardeners. She holds a Certificate of Native Plants from the University of Georgia and is a member of the Georgia Native Plant Society and Georgia Botanical Society. Known as the 'Clematis Lady' in the Atlanta area, she has been a frequent lecturer on growing clematis in hot climates, always describing the value of the viorna species.
In her prior life Lyndy was a Licensed Clinical Social Worker spending thirty years working the field of mental health. She was the Regional Executive Director for a twelve-county region for mental health, mental retardation and substance abuse programs. Upon her retirement Lyndy immediately became a master gardener and joined the International Clematis Society. She has trained all ten of her grandchildren on the beauty of clematis and often engages them in the cleaning of clematis seeds for the I.Cl.S. seed exchange.
Dan Long, Vice-President, USA
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"I come from a family of avid home gardeners and decided back in the early 80's to pursue horticulture as a career. Clematis can be particularly challenging in production for several reasons, but I decided to make it my specialty when I founded Brushwood Nursery in 1998. I love them and it makes work more enjoyable! It's been great sharing about the genus with others and learning from the fine folks in the Society as well."
Ken Woolfenden, Editor, Great Britain
"Born in 1950, I graduated from Sussex University, England with a BSc in Applied Engineering. Almost by chance I applied for a job as a trainee computer programmer. I stayed in this fascinating industry, in various roles, until very recently when I opted for early retirement.
Fiona and I met whilst we were both working on the same computer implementation project. After getting married in 1984, I gave her a one-year membership to the International Clematis Society, and we haven't had a free moment since.
My involvement with, and knowledge of, clematis has grown through my relationship with Fiona and my other interests, particularly photography, which I learnt as a child from my parents.
Working with computers for many years, including using them for many presentations and proposals, has provided useful experience when it comes to the production side of our journal, 'Clematis International'. With PCs of today, even complex formatting is achievable, if you know how.
I created the I.Cl.S. Web Site in 1996, I was interested in this new and emerging 'Internet' technology and wanted to understand more about it, how it worked, what you could do with it, whether it could benefit the Society. The first site was a very simple affair, 7 pages, today we have over 400 pages. The site features a different clematis each month.
As well as photography, I'm interested in cooking, wine and travel. With a little imagination we've used our membership of the I.Cl.S. to extend our experiences in all these areas."
Fiona Woolfenden, Minutes Secretary, Great Britain
"My interest with Clematis started with a visit to Jim Fisk's Clematis Nursery in the mid 1980's. We bought three and never looked back. Now we have over 100 in our small garden either planted in the ground or in large pots. I prefer alpina types and late flowering varieties to the early large flowered varieties. I also have several herbaceous varieties, which I admire for their late colour and scent.
In 1989-90 I was the Secretary of the Great Britain and Ireland Branch of the I.Cl.S. and then became the Secretary of the British Clematis Society after its formation in 1991 until 1993. I was elected Secretary of the I.Cl.S. in 1994 and I have remained Secretary ever since. Over the last few years we have managed to involve other Members of the Society in the work that Ken and I do in order to distribute knowledge of how the Society works.
Ken and I live on the outskirts of north London. Now we are both retired and still very busy with the garden and seeing familiy and friends. We also have a horse which I ride regularly and I belong to a local yarnbombing group!
I've always enjoyed gardening including as a child earning holiday money by weeding! When I was young we had a very large garden, which was partly cultivated as a garden, and partly a fruit orchard. I remember the garden having peonies, roses and conifers but no Clematis!"
Roy Nunn, Treasurer, Great Britain
"Born at the end of 1944 in the middle of the Cambridgeshire Fens, which at the time was predominantly an arable and fruit growing area. Since my childhood I have had two main interests, music and gardening. After school I would spend many hours helping my father in the garden, mainly growing food crops for our consumption. I first became interested in clematis about 20 years ago, by way of a chance meeting at one of the Orchestral concerts at which I was playing. I was invited to stay with a family who lived on the shores of Loch Lomond Scotland. It was there that I first saw some of the small flowered species and hybrids, also a number of the New Zealand and American species growing happily outside in their rocky garden right on the shore of the Loch. After expressing interest, seedlings and cuttings were provided, for me to try in our garden, some of these plants are still with us today, having survived moving into three gardens.
We have over 100 clematis planted in the garden, amongst other plant varieties, and about the same number in pots, I have been propagating plants from seed and cuttings and assessing suitability for garden use. I also hybridize hellebores and lilies.
I have now retired from my job as Building Surveyor (Clerk of Works) at Trinity College, Cambridge, Great Britain and spend some of my time writing for Magazines, I.Cl.S. and the BCS about the merits of growing the small flowered clematis."
The MHH Partnership Ltd, Chartered Certified Accountants, Auditor, Great Britain
The Society thanks Roy Nunn for finding The MHH Partnership Ltd to audit our accounts. The Society also thanks Michael Hawes, FCCA, for auditing our latest accounts.
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