Mary Moody (Judge's Prize winner)
Mary is a prolific gardening author and a former presenter on ABC TV’s ‘Gardening Australia’. Her gardening books include The Good Life (1995) and A Gardener’s Companion (2001), but she is best known for her three volumes of memoir, Au Revoir, Last Tango In Paris and Lunch With Madame Murat. Every year Mary leads treks to the Himalayas and tours of southwest France to observe native flora. She lives outside Bathurst in country NSW.