Women in Horticulture

Following a meteoric rise, Jac Semmler has now become a household name in the horticulture fraternity due to her appearances on ABC TV’s Gardening Australia.
After years of study and forays into the training and education sphere, she spent 6 years with The Diggers Club before starting her own business ‘Super Bloom Plant Practice’ as a plant practitioner, involving consultancy, landscape design and writing 2 books, Super Bloom and Super Bloom Handbook.
So, it’s no surprise that she is now involved with the new Laak Boorndap urban garden project that is planned for the Melbourne Arts precinct, collaborating with world-renowned landscape designers.
Well done, Jac!”

Q&A with Sophie Thomson who you will immediately recognise from her long-standing role on Gardening Australia. She’s a human dynamo not afraid to take on bigger and bigger challenges.

Michele Adler’s expertise and knowledge is undoubted. Now she has written an award-winning book ‘Burnley Gardens: their design and the people who loved them’ – a book which we have eagerly awaited and will be formally launched next month

Clare Hart is Acting Executive Director at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (Melbourne). After starting out in Fine Art Painting she switched to horticulture and has held several roles involving Garden Design,
Nursery Management and Arboriculture as well as management of public open spaces with local government and botanic gardens. You may also remember her from the 3RRR radio gardening program
“Dirty Deeds”.

Meet Merryle Johnson; lifelong gardener, plantsperson and owner of Seedscape Seeds, and read about her journey in Horticulture.

Nikki was announced as the 2023 AgriFutures Rural Woman of the Year. This young entrepreneur developed her ‘Grown Not Flown’ digital app to encourage us to buy local, connecting us with local, sustainable flower producers. It’s a family affair involving 2 farms with truffles and flowers in regional Victoria.

You may recognise AB from her radio appearances on the 3CR Gardening Show. She is a horticulturist, journalist, conservationist and writer, having written or co-written several books promoting Australian native plants. Dig a little deeper into AB’s horticultural journey.

Sandra Schwarz introduces us to six women leading the way in restorative green-scape connection, in part one of two.