Graham Ross

Career Ross's career began in Sydney during the late 1970s when he started presenting gardening segments and programs for ABC Television in 1978. He appeared on the Seven Network's 11AM in 1980 as well as on Seven National News as a horticultural reporter. He was gardening editor for The Daily Telegraph for four years and worked on The Sun for 10 years.

Originating as a weekly segment each Wednesday on Mickie de Stoop's afternoon program, Ross commenced presenting his own three-hour Sunday morning gardening program on radio station 2GB in 1980, which is now one of the longest running, and highest-rating programs in Australian radio history.

Ross has been with Australia's Channel Seven since the mid-1980s. Most of that time he has spent at Australia's number one lifestyle show, Better Homes and Gardens, on which he has presented over 900 episodes. In 2014 he won the Australian Institute of Horticulture's Golden Wattle Award for the advancement of the profession of horticulture in Australia through 'sustained exemplary conduct as a professional horticulturist'.

Ross has received treatment for several skin cancers and prostate cancer and cites his experience with chemicals in the early days of his career as a motivating factor in his interest in organic gardening. According to Ross, it was motivated by his view that, "For too long gardeners and horticulturists, the essence of a multi-billion dollar domestic industry, have been ignored, taken for granted and undervalued in Australia business, government, educational and community circles". David Glenn, Tim Entwisle from the Melbourne Royal Botanic Gardens and gardening writer Trevor Nottle were also named as members of the founding council. Ross described the goal of the new council as being to "reinstate gardening on to the national agenda". Ross was quoted as saying "the AGC strongly supported Australis" which has elsewhere been described by one of the key protagonists as a "a catalyst for future urban developments" In a reference to the ongoing contest around where the event was to be held and the role of property development in the proposal, the Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate said he was "unwilling to give away public land for this proposal".