PLANTS for the people.
wonder
beauty
MAXIMALISM
Nationally award-winning plant practice Super Bloom is the first of its kind in Australia, collaborating closely with exceptional design studios, leading institutions, developers, and diverse government agencies with a mission of plants for the people.
Led by internationally recognised horticulturalist and plant practitioner, designer Jac Semmler brings over 20 years of considered, expansive experience working with plants and people, Super Bloom has earned an industry reputation for exceptional public experiences and wondrous, emotive, resilient, future-forward planting. Super Bloom works Australia-wide and internationally, with projects and support in the UK and USA.
Super Bloom is known for its adaptability to cultivate impact and beauty in plants, projects and public experience as singular plant practitioners.
Work with Super Bloom
Super Bloom’s work focuses on bringing living beauty and plant expertise to projects, people, and places.
Super Bloom offers:
STRATEGY & DESIGN:
Strategic and creative development for major public realm projects, select private places and plant driven spaces. Planting design, practice and process beyond a plan into the present.
COLLABORATIONS:
Plant-led collaborations and wondrous partnerships with brands, designers, studios, firms and allied industries.
VISION & CONCEPT:
Visionary conceptual development and design for beauty and resilience in planting and public experience. Embedded support and nimble subject matter expertise for practices and projects with plants.
CURATION:
Temporal gardens. Plant x Art projects and installations. Advanced and complex planting layouts and considered care with advanced horticultural design talent.
MANAGEMENT & CARE:
Internationally forward management approaches, frameworks and plant care models for place makers, horticulture and landscape professionals.
ADVOCACY & PRESENCE:
‘Plants for the people’, engaging people with plant storytelling, conversations, speaking, media, presence, influence and experiences.
FLOWER POWER - DESIGNING GARDENS FOR YEAR ROUND WONDER BY JAC SEMMLER
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THE ULTIMATE PUBLICATION ON GROWING A GARDEN FOR YEAR ROUND BLOOMS AND FLORAL WONDER
Where Super Bloom illuminated the ‘ingredients’ to create a garden, Flower Power is the companion for the approach, the ‘recipe’, offering guidance and consideration on how to to compose your planting design to create an immersive and floral wonderland, all year round.
Visionary plant advocate Jac Semmler introduces a groundbreaking philosophy to create year-round wonder: a garden with layers of heroic and supportive plants and flowers; textures and patterns; resilience and delight - no matter the season or climate.
Preorder signed copy of FLOWER POWER
case studies
National AILA award for Gardens
Green your Roof Project for Treasury Place with Hassell and the City of Melbourne.
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Laak Boorndap
Melbourne Arts Precinct Urban Garden with Hassell, SO-IL and international designers James Hitchmough and Nigel Dunnett.
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Welcoming Wonder
Super Bloom at the Abbotsford Convent. Lofi seeded temporal meadow.
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Pleasance for the Art Gallery of South Australia
Fallow x Super Bloom for Nature Festival
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Melbourne Arts Precinct Plant Trials
Leading research and planting design with the University of Melbourne and Hassell.
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Test Garden at Federation Square
Demonstration Garden for the Melbourne Arts Precinct Corporation.
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LAAK BOORNDAP
LAAK BOORNDAP: URBAN GARDEN OF THE MELBOURNE ARTS PRECINCT
In the beating heart of Melbourne’s city centre will sit the 18,000 square metre development Laak Boondap, meaning ‘sky country’. In amongst the bustle and rigidity of city buildings, Laak Boondap will be a celebration of nature - bringing the naturalism and the gentle notes of nature to the heart of the city.
Planted entirely on an elevated deck, this remarkable new public garden is at the forefront of contemporary garden design – being unique in the world in its planting density, scale and climate resiliency.
Jac Semmler
Jac Semmler is a plant practitioner and director of award winning Super Bloom plant practice bringing dynamic living beauty, diversity and delight through planting design, high skill horticulture and plant x art projects, with a mission of 'plants for the people' in a changing climate. With over 20 years of considered experience with plants and people, the interface of public experience and wondrous resilient future forward planting is Jac’s singular super power.
Internationally recognised horticulturist, planting designer and visionary in wondrous resilient summer dry climatic planting, based in Australia and working internationally. Author of SUPER BLOOM and The Super Bloom Handbook and Flower Power with Thames and Hudson, published worldwide. Jac’s next book FLOWER POWER: Designing gardens for year-round wonder is soon to be released internationally in March 2026.
FLOWER
POWER
Designing Gardens for Year Round Wonder
Visionary plant advocate Jac Semmler introduces a groundbreaking philosophy to create year-round wonder: a garden with layers of heroic and supportive plants and flowers; with textures and patterns; with resilience and delight - no matter the season or climate.
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We all need more plants in our lives. In this beautiful and evocative book, Jac Semmler sets out a clear path towards achieving your own truly fulfilling, wonderful and exuberant plant-based garden.
Nigel Dunnett,
Professor of Planting Design, University of Sheffield
Releasing soon internationally.
Published by Thames and Hudson with luminous photography by Sarah Pannell.
The Latest at
Super Bloom…
Gardening Australia
Practical Planting Design Mini-series
Join Jac Semmler of Super Bloom as a Guest Presenter for a mini-series of practical planting design.
Gardening Australia ABC Iview
Finalists Announced
National Gallery of Australia Sculpture Garden Design Competition
Super Bloom joins the SBLA Studio-led Design team of Blaklash, artist Jazz Money, Edition Office, Heliotrope and Sandpit as one of five finalists.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Hattie Molloy for MAF 2026
Held in the Soil - An Installation Grown Over Time
‘Held in the Soil’ highlights the often unseen process of growth, starting from seed rather than using fully grown plants, with planting support provided to Hattie Molloy by Super Bloom.
Melbourne Art Fair 2026
