Plants
for the people
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
Explore 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.
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.
MANAGEMENT & CARE: Internationally forward management approaches, frameworks and plant care models for place makers, horticulture and landscape professionals.
COLLABORATIONS: Plant-led collaborations and wondrous partnerships with brands, designers, studios, firms and allied industries.
CURATION: Temporal gardens. Plant x Art projects and installations. Advanced and complex planting layouts and considered care with advanced horticultural design talent.
ADVOCACY & PRESENCE: ‘Plants for the people’, engaging people with plant story telling, conversations, speaking, media, presence and experiences.
Our Collaborators & Clients
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.
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.
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.
The Latest at Super Bloom
Pleasance
Fallow x Super Bloom Nature Festival SA
Pleasance is a living artwork that extends from the marquee into a living artwork, where plants and sculptures frame intimate moments of connection.
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
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
Laak Boorndap
Melbourne Arts Precinct Transformation
An immersive landscape planted entirely on an elevated deck will help to reshape Australia’s Melbourne Arts Precinct with one of the most richly layered planting designs of any public garden in the world.
Melbourne Arts Precinct