LILIES - RHS Lily Group

NOTES ON AUTHORS
Katsuro Arakawa has been working at the headquarters of Sapporo Foundation for
Greener Parks since 2006. He was the director of Yurigahara Park in Japan where he
created the World Lily Gardens 1987-2005, founder member of the Lily Society in Japan
and is a major contributor to the Lily Group seed distribution. He was awarded the Lyttel
Cup in 1998.
Vjacheslav Byalt, PhD, is a Senior Research Associate in the department of Vascular Plants
in the Herbarium of the Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science.
His main interests are plants of the family Crassulaceae and the flora of protected territories
including the flora of the Khoper River and of the steppe zone of Russia.
Cameron Carmichael is a retired professional horticulturist who gardens in 2 acres
in central Scotland where he grows 3,500 different taxa including 100 lilies. He has a
particular interest in garden plant conservation including old cultivars and is a member of
the Plant Conservation Committee of the NCCPG.
Roy Carter was friends with Derek Fox for nearly 40 years through their common interest
in rhododendrons and camellias. He was Derek’s deputy chairman for the Essex Group
of the NCCPG and succeeded him as Chairman in 1992. He took over coordinating the
projected dispersed collections of Division 2 lilies (Lilium martagon and hybrids) and
erythroniums when Derek became ill and has been a member of the Lily Group for just
over ten years.
Jeff Coe runs his own company working in asset and corporate finance specialising in IT
and is a freelance web designer and was a professional athlete. Jeff was the Lily Group
Newsletter Editor from 2003 until 2006 and is currently the Group’s Web Producer. He
gardens in Hampshire by the sea just 20 miles south of Selborne.
Richard Dadd has been a member of the Lily Group for over 40 years, and served on the
Committee for 15 years of them, working closely with both the then Chairman, Dee Martyn
Simmons and Editor of both the newsletter and yearbook, Tony Hayward. He is interested
in a wide range of plants especially lilies and alliums.
Kate Donald trained in horticulture at Wisley and the Royal Botanical Garden, Edinburgh.
She was International Daffodil Registrar and Assistant Editor at the RHS and has recently
been appointed International Lily Registrar. She is also an authority on pre 1930 daffodil
cultivars and crofts on the west coast of Scotland.
Brent Elliott, PhD, is the RHS Society’s Historian, having been Lindley Librarian for over
25 years.
Walter Erhardt is a teacher and horticultural author. He lives in Bavaria, Germany, and
has for many years been interested in lilies and daylilies. He has written books about the
genera Hemerocallis and Narcissus, but his most important works are The European Plant
Finder and ZANDER- Dictionary of Plant Names.
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