Bromania

Grace Goode OAM

Bromeliad Garden & Home Nursery

Grace has made plants her life, with over eight hundred registered hybrids. The garden contains a large variety of rare, exotic and tropical bromeliad plants, with newly developed hybrids waiting to be named.

Grace has always promoted the Bromeliad Societies both here and overseas. She is a life member of many Bromeliad Societies and is currently on the Management Committee of the Sunshine Coast Bromeliad Society. At the 14th and 15th World Bromeliad Conferences she had Grace Goode Awards for the Show Results Best Cryptanthus Horticultural and in St. Petersburg, Florida on May, 2002 Cryptanthus Society Awards Grace Goode Silver Ingot Award Best Cryptanthus Horticulture were presented.

Grace Goode was recognized for her Service to Horticulture through the culture and hybridization of bromeliads and awarded the Order of Australia Medal in the 2004 Australia Day Honours List. Grace Margaret GOODE, Alexandra Headland Qld. Service to Horticulture. Medal (OAM) in the General Division.

Extract from the Sunshine Coast Daily Newspaper Monday, 26th January 2004. A selection of today's top local news stories.

Coast residents receive honours
“A bromeliad hybridiser stand alongside Sunshine Coast charity workers and educators in this year's Australia Day Honours” and “was one of eight locals to receive the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM)."

“OAM recipients include Grace Margaret Goode, 86, who is internationally-recognised for creating more than 800 bromeliad hybrids at her Alexandra Headland home over the past 30 years.
The names of her hybrids, as diverse and colourful as the plants themselves, include Charm, One and Only, Amazing Grace (after the song) and Mandela, after South African human rights icon Nelson Mandela.
Mrs Goode has a special bromeliad called Joel, after her favourite nephew Joel Neil who died in a car accident in Brisbane several years ago.
''I wanted to name something after him because he was such a lovely lad.
I've got hybrids from Joel called Fond Memory and Unforgettable, because that's what he was.'' Mrs Goode said was very comfortable with the recognition for her lifetime of service to horticulture.
''I can't understand why people say they're humbled.
I feel proud and honoured to receive this award,'' she declared.”

	Grace DOES NOT Have Any Lists Available Guests by appointment only. Please ring for an appointment. Grace Goode "Renowned Hybridiser" Bromania Alexandra Headlands 4572. Australia Phone 07 5444 4317
Congratulating Grace at Bromeliad Society of Queensland Meeting After Receiving OAM Photo Courtesy of Mrs Olive Trevor