Plant People

Get to know us

At Super Bloom, we are multi-disciplinary, high skill horticulturalists or in other words, plant practitioners and creatives. We work across the plant spectrum, from thought leadership and planting design in major landscape and garden projects to art x plant projects, to supporting landscape and project professionals by bringing the ‘plants’ to clients and teams, training and design workshops.

We are passionate about plant literacy, high skill horticulture, management and the communities embrace of diversity and abundant landscapes and gardens.

Our support is typically a high value collaboration or contribution defined by an infectious passion and innovation in plants. We see plants and their possibilities from a unique and future forward perspective.

In essence, we tailor our plant work to the project and the client in a meaningful way that is flexible to the project or an ongoing arrangement.

Contact us for a plant nerd to explore what our work can be for you.​

Manifesto

  • Super Bloom is a plant practice that brings plant expertise for dynamic living beauty and biodiversity in urban, landscape, residential, and creative projects, spaces and home gardens. We support and work alongside people who work with plants or those who want to cultivate and tend them as gardeners.

    Plants, especially their flowers, have heroic qualities, and when we experience gardens and landscapes, something heroic is nurtured within us. A 'Super Bloom' is also a natural phenomenon, a mass flowering event where the landscape is transformed into swathes of colour, like a canvas.

  • We describe Super Bloom as a plant practice as we perceive gardens, landscapes and 'gardeners' as dynamic and progressive in space and across time and the act of working with or tending plants as an active practice.

    We see no bounds on where plant beauty can and cannot be. Nor what beauty is or is not. We see it as part, not apart, of other outcomes when working with plants, be it sustainability, climate forward thinking, community, wellbeing or biodiversity.

  • Our work with you can encompass tailored plant selection, planting plans, design reviews, curated plant communities, successional seasonal beauty and crafted ephemeral experiences through 'gardens' and 'meadows' and so much more. Super Bloom is about plant possibilities

    We are creatives, educators and engagement specialists and can tailor plant professional development, training, consensus decision making and learning experiences for your teams and communities.

    Our approach is easily defined as ‘teams make planting dreams’ we value collaborating with other skilled disciplines and design teams to make plants possible in unique and new ways.

    Contact us for a plant nerd to discuss and explore.

  • At Super Bloom, we tend ideas, tend 'meadows' and ephemeral art, tend plant projects across arts, design and architecture, tend to conversations, and support and training for people doing plant work inside or outside the worlds of horticulture and landscape architecture. We 'garden' across fields and industries. As a community of plants in a garden, the sum is always greater than the parts. all benefit with plant people at the table.

Why we do it

There is a hunger for beauty. Plants are essential to our practice in bringing living beauty. We recognise the increasing importance of plant biodiversity and the role of plants in our bodies, hearts and minds. A connection to nature is essential for people and communities. Our ambition is for innovative future forward planting, higher plant literacy and plant diversity cultivating climate compatible beauty in our worlds.

Our practice is agnostic in our plant selection, meaning we use broad palettes of plants in response to place, projects and people. We tailor our support to our clients, the space, aesthetic and the work at hand.

We see gardening and the ways of using plants as part of the creative realm, as an art form and craft of itself. To work with plants through a dynamic approach is a practice. Plant practitioners bring valuable expertise and consideration to multi-disciplinary teams and major projects, especially at concept.

We love a 'plant nerd', so contact us for a conversation on plants and living beauty

Jac Semmler

I lead an emerging plant practice Super Bloom which brings dynamic living beauty and diversity to urban, landscape and creative projects. Respected horticulturalist and recognised as an innovator in dry summer planting design.

With past roles as Ornamental and Seed manager at the Diggers Club and years working in plants, engagement and education, I am a qualified horticulturalist and educator, botanical guide, presenter and regular contributor to radio, podcasts and publications, including Wonderground Press. International network and study of gardens and practices worldwide further informs our work within the Australian context.

I spend as much time as possible in my Heartland garden, pondering and cultivating big questions on the intersections of gardening, beauty and identity, experimenting and contributing to the next generation of Australian gardens and gardening possibilities.

Heartland Garden

Heartland is my personal garden which is a place for experimentation and acts as my 'plant lab'. I think of home gardens as personal landscapes of meaning with our history, culture and creative expression all growing together.  

Media

The media has been abuzz with coverage of Super Bloom and interest in Jac Semmler’s work. From podcasts to interviews with major newspapers such as The Age and underground publications like Wonderground, Semmler's work has been the subject of numerous discussions. Radio & TV features have also delved into the artist's background and creative process, providing listeners with a deeper understanding of the work.