1. What’s your favourite tree or plant? Dragon Tree or Baobab Tree.
2. What’s the best project or team you’ve been a part of? Why? Channel Nine project for Brett and his wonderful family. Seeing the impact of the community coming together for one great cause was phenomenal!
3. What’s your favourite landscape design style? Why? Sharp Cacti/succulent gardens – the amazing colours, shapes and slow growing
4. Where in the world inspires your creativity? Singapore gardens by the bay, outback Australia and also coastal Australia.
5. Why do you love your job? I get to change people’s lives and help create functional and aesthetically pleasing spaces for families to make memories together.
6. What’s the proudest moment in your life? Having my three beautiful children.
7. What’s the biggest risk you’ve ever taken? Starting my own business.
8. What’s a local or global issue/cause you’re passionate about + contribute to? Sick children.
9. What’s the best lesson you’ve learnt from your biggest failure? God and family are worth more than gold.
10. What’s your purpose in life? To create a legacy for my children and future generations whilst trying to help as many people as possible here on earth.

1. What’s your favourite tree or plant? French Lavender.
2. What’s the best project or team you’ve been a part of? Why? ‘Brett’s Backyard Rescue’ for A Current Affair. Loved it because of the challenge to design, build and coordinate so many different trades in a short space of time. Worked crazy hours but the team morale was amazing and we met so many wonderful people along the way, not to mention being able to create a beautiful landscape for a very deserving family!
3. What’s your favourite landscape design style? Why? French Provincial Garden – I love the straight lines and symmetry as well as the planting scheme which incorporates beautiful hedging.
4. Where in the world inspires your creativity? Australian beaches, being around water is incredibly relaxing and inspiring.
5. Why do you love your job? Working behind the scenes to ensure that everyone is able to perform their roles to the best of their ability. I also love being involved in sales and marketing to engage people in what we do and why we do it.
6. What’s the proudest moment in your life? My three beautiful children.
7. What’s the biggest risk you’ve ever taken? Starting a business with my husband (Nathan). It could either make or break us but we work well as a team and support each other. It works because we put our family first and his strengths are my weaknesses and vice versa.
8. What’s a local or global issue/cause you’re passionate about + contribute to? Every year as a business we’re involved in Movember. We also give to missions which provide support to local farmers as well as different countries around the world, assisting in building wells, schools and supporting children with disabilities.
9. What’s the best lesson you’ve learnt from your biggest failure? No matter what life throws at you if you have love in your life you have everything. Material things mean nothing and they can go as quickly as they come.
10. What’s your purpose in life? To make a difference in the lives of as many people as possible and to leave a legacy for my children.

1. What’s your favourite tree or plant? Cherry Blossom and Waterhousia floribunda.
2. What’s the best project or team you’ve been a part of? Why? Burpengary AFL Precinct and associated team. This was a large project with many in depth and varying aspects involved in relation to scope, and the teamwork required to bring the project together. A lot was learnt and was a great team to work with made up of multiple stakeholders, subcontractors, suppliers and fellow staff members.
3. What’s your favourite landscape design style? Why? Japanese style, for the way it incorporates the use of multiple layered planting elements including the use of rocks and gravel and water. It almost gives the feeling of looking over an entire land but in a confined space.
4. Where in the world inspires your creativity? The outdoors in general. Seeing spaces and imagining what you could create based on a brief, or if no brief provided then putting the imagination to work.
5. Why do you love your job? The feeling you get when you deliver to a client the outdoor space that they have always wanted, and knowing that it is going to provide that client and their family and friends years of enjoyment and a space they will create life long memories in.
6. What’s the proudest moment in your life? The birth of my daughter.
7. What’s the biggest risk you’ve ever taken? None that weren’t calculated to a degree. Did the risk pay off?? Not always, but no risk – no reward.
8. What’s a local or global issue/cause you’re passionate about + contribute to? Cancer research, particularly in young people, and Surf Life Saving Foundation.
9. What’s the best lesson you’ve learnt from your biggest failure? In business – get it in writing! Ensure all bases are covered, not to mention effective communication.
10. What’s your purpose in life? To be happy. To spend time with my wife and daughter and to raise my daughter to be the best person she can be.

1. What’s your favourite tree or plant? Blue Chalk Sticks & Fiddle Leaf Fig.
2. What’s the best project or team you’ve been a part of? Why? Mt Gravatt – fun working with the existing irregular pool shape and level changes.
3. What’s your favourite landscape design style? Why? French – the symmetry and plants create a formal and magical oasis.
4. Where in the world inspires your creativity? Morocco & Greece.
5. Why do you love your job? Creating a different oasis/space for each client’s varied needs/style.
6. What’s the proudest moment in your life? Graduating University.
7. What’s the biggest risk you’ve ever taken?
8. What’s a local or global issue/cause you’re passionate about + contribute to? Global warming & urban density contributing to hotter landscapes.
9. What’s the best lesson you’ve learnt from your biggest failure? When one door closes, a window opens.
10. What’s your purpose in life? Travel the world, experience different cultures & spaces.

1. What’s your favourite tree or plant? Magnolia.
2. What’s the best project or team you’ve been a part of? Why? Chelmer – the project surpassed expectations and looked AWESOME!
3. What’s your favourite landscape design style? Why? Tropical – gives a fresh and relaxed atmosphere to any space.
4. Where in the world inspires your creativity? Gold Coast Hinterland.
5. Why do you love your job? Love working in the outdoors.
6. What’s the proudest moment in your life? Finishing school.
7. What’s the biggest risk you’ve ever taken? Beginning my apprenticeship.
8. What’s a local or global issue/cause you’re passionate about + contribute to? Keeping the ocean and beaches clean.
9. What’s the best lesson you’ve learnt from your biggest failure? Planning is very important.
10. What’s your purpose in life? To be kind to everyone I meet.

1. What’s your favourite tree or plant? Frangipani.
2. What’s the best project or team you’ve been a part of? Why? Newstead Towers (Landscape Solutions) and overall effect were amazing!
3. What’s your favourite landscape design style? Why? Tropical – because I grew up in the middle of the bush.
4. Where in the world inspires your creativity? Malaysia.
5. Why do you love your job? I get to see phenomenal transformations.
6. What’s the proudest moment in your life? Marrying my wife and having our beautiful kids.
7. What’s the biggest risk you’ve ever taken? Moving to Brisbane.
8. What’s a local or global issue/cause you’re passionate about + contribute to? Breast Cancer.
9. What’s the best lesson you’ve learnt from your biggest failure? Don’t take short cuts!
10. What’s your purpose in life? To leave it better than it was.

1. What’s your favourite tree or plant? Dragon Tree.
2. What’s the best project or team you’ve been a part of? Why? A Current Affair Project – extraordinary landscape and community effort to transform a backyard into a stunning oasis for a family going through their own battle with cancer.
3. What’s your favourite landscape design style? Why? Tropical – it makes you feel like you’re on holidays.
4. Where in the world inspires your creativity? Italy.
5. Why do you love your job? Being in the outdoors and the satisfaction you get from creating new landscapes.
6. What’s the proudest moment in your life? Birth of my children.
7. What’s the biggest risk you’ve ever taken? Changing careers from boiler maker to landscaping.
8. What’s a local or global issue/cause you’re passionate about + contribute to? Poverty.
9. What’s the best lesson you’ve learnt from your biggest failure? Don’t let anyone else control your life.
10. What’s your purpose in life? To provide for my family.

1. What’s your favourite tree or plant? Yucca.
2. What’s the best project or team you’ve been a part of? Why? Refreshing the landscape of a $9 million property in Ascot, Brisbane.
3. What’s your favourite landscape design style? Why? Formal – I love straight lines and contemporary, clean & creative designs.
4. Where in the world inspires your creativity? The European countryside.
5. Why do you love your job? It’s very rewarding being involved in something from concept to completion; it’s a great hands-on environment.
6. What’s the proudest moment in your life? Graduating after four years at an American College as the Student Body President.
7. What’s the biggest risk you’ve ever taken? Giving up a teaching job in the US to return to Australia.
8. What’s a local or global issue/cause you’re passionate about + contribute to? As cities expand, it becomes more important to build and nurture beautiful greenspaces.
9. What’s the best lesson you’ve learnt from your biggest failure? You should never let failure slow you down.
10. What’s your purpose in life? To leave a lasting legacy and achieve financial security for my family.

1. What’s your favourite tree or plant? Plumeria/Frangipani Tree.
2. What’s the best project or team you’ve been a part of? Why? I worked as a Corporate Travel Consultant in a team of 12. We worked, we laughed, we traveled together, we were like family.
3. What’s your favourite landscape design style? Why? Unsure.
4. Where in the world inspires your creativity? Europe.
5. Why do you love your job? It challenges me to do my very best.
6. What’s the proudest moment in your life? Becoming a mother.
7. What’s the biggest risk you’ve ever taken? Moved country/continent for someone.
8. What’s a local or global issue/cause you’re passionate about + contribute to? Cancer Research.
9. What’s the best lesson you’ve learnt from your biggest failure? Failure is a part of life. It’s not how many times you fall but how you pick yourself up, try again and again.
10. What’s your purpose in life? To find happiness within me.

1. What’s your favourite tree or plant? Grass tree.
2. What’s the best project or team you’ve been a part of? Why? A project at Thornlands was my favourite because it had a lot really cool features packed into a relatively small area.
3. What’s your favourite landscape design style? Why? I like designs that include curved garden edges, lots of rocks and grassy plants.
4. Where in the world inspires your creativity? The granite belt in Australia.
5. Why do you love your job? Because I get to be involved in turning an unattractive and unusable area into an attractive and functional space.
6. What’s the proudest moment in your life?
7. What’s the biggest risk you’ve ever taken?
8. What’s a local or global issue/cause you’re passionate about + contribute to? I am involved in the planting and maintaining of over 1000 trees on our property. These trees are part of a program to prevent salt washing out of the soil and into the valley.
9. What’s the best lesson you’ve learnt from your biggest failure?
10. What’s your purpose in life? To succeed to my highest potential.