Community of Gardeners

Advocacy and support for practice

Expressions of Interest

Emerging / Early Career Practitioners / Professional gardeners

We are calling out to early-career gardening professionals to express their interest in joining a public panel discussion event on gardening/ horticultural practice and the role of the gardener. 

This is a supported and paid professional development opportunity where participants need no previous experience in panel discussions.

Participants will catch up with their warm and experienced host Jaclyn Crupi (who will facilitate the discussion at the event), Jac Semmler (Super Bloom) and each other before the panel conversation, and there will be ample support. 

Diverse emerging talent is highly encouraged.  

What is involved and why?

The event will be soon, 5:30pm Sunday 21st at Bakehouse Studios  (27-29 Hoddle Street, Richmond) with a catch-up prior at Heartland in Frankston - flexible to everyone's schedules. 

A fundamental mission for Super Bloom Plant Practice is for the role of professional gardeners or horticulturalists to be increasingly valued in our society and for our gardens, landscapes and industry to be enriched with talented, skilled and supported practitioners. 2023 was a year of research and investigation in this space, and the challenge is multi-faceted in Australia and elsewhere, but we know that there is passionate talent. 

Supporting this emerging talent is something we can do by aiding their professional growth and sharing the stories of their practice. While advocating for the value diverse garden professionals bring to teams, places and institutions they are a part of. Also, we practitioners have few opportunities to meet and discuss our practice so let's cultivate more ways to do so this year. 

Participants will be paid a speaker fee of $300 each which aligns to our Super Bloom policy of payment for professional practice. The event will be ticketed at a low cost for accessibility for the professional gardening community and open into a bigger discussion on how to nurture practice in the industry. Super Bloom will cover the remaining production and venue costs as a community contribution.  

For any questions on how to support the event or tips on potential participants don't hesitate to contact us.