Graeme Barclay

Graeme Barclay is the new Registrar of the BSI Bromeliad Cultivar Register (BCR) and also Manager of the Bromeliad Species Database (BSD) - a public resource he co-designed that was released on the BSI website in 2022. He is also the Assistant Editor of the BSI Journal, a past two term BSI Board Director for the New Zealand region and the current President of the Bromeliad Society of New Zealand in his third term.

 Graeme has grown bromeliads for over twenty years, purely as a hobbyist, the last half focusing on building and maintaining a large species collection of many Bromeliaceae genera in West Auckland, New Zealand. His passion is growing species as they would grow in habitat, experimenting with different growing methods and positions to achieve optimum cultivation results in the cooler local climate. He is also an active hybridizer of Neoregelia and Vriesea and a regular contributor of species and cultivation articles for the BSNZ monthly ‘Bromeliad’ Journal and BSI Journal.

“You’re sure to have lots of fun at “Aussie Broms”, just like Peter Tristram had lots of fun taking this photo of me posing with a bronze nude statue on the bus tour to Grant’s Farm Nursery at the World Bromeliad Conference in Florida last year! I am looking forward to meeting you all In November and having another great time together!”