In this episode I speak with Remi Willems, a gardener based in regional Victoria who spent 6 years working at Paul Bangay's Stonefields.

Remi has a great story of his first gardening memory, and also has plenty of insights into the high end maintenance he's work in his whole career.

He has great plans to coach people to do the same work he does, so it'll be great to following along with his career and see it take off.

You can follow Remi on Instagram @remi_the_gardener

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In this episode I speak with Mike Andes, founder of Augusta Lawn Care. 

Mike started his business early, and has grown it significantly, to now have 100+ franchises in North America, as well as one in Melbourne.

Mike is big on systems within business, and also employs P4P in them, which is Pay for performance, where the employees receive a profit share based on performance.

Mike also talks about the CoPilot CRM he uses for the business, and we also briefly touch on the future of robotic mowers.

You can follow Mike on Instagram @themikeandes

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In this episode I speak with Rob Cooper from Distinctive Gardens. Rob is a landscape designer based in South Australia, and only recently stopped doing construction within his business.

He's heading a South Australian team, alongside Yergan Landscape and Desert Flower Landscapes, to design and build a garden at this years MIFGS, so we talk plenty about that.

We also talk about Rob's process of communicating with contractors who are going to build his projects so that both they, and the client win.

You can follow Rob on Instagram @distinctivegardens_landscaping

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In this episode I answer some questions asked via Instagram.

It's the shortest episode I've ever done, but we'll be back to regular episodes next week.

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In this episode I speak with two past guests in Paul Pritchard of Paul Pritchard Landscape Design (ep 69) and Adam Hompas from Adam Hompas Landscapes (ep 66).

Paul and Adam are both based in Melbourne, and since being on the podcast in Spring of 2022, they've teamed up to design and build 2 show gardens in the Boutique Garden category at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, and are going back again this year to tackle a large show garden, so we talk about their plans for that, as well as what they've learnt from the two they've built.

I also ask them both about how their businesses have been since being on the podcast, and follow up with them on questions answered in previous episodes.

You can find Paul on Instagram @paulpritchardlandscapedesign and you can find Adam @adamhompaslandscapes

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In this episode I answer some questions asked via Instagram.

I also make a major announcement towards the end of the episode!

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In this episode I speak with Bridget Doyle from Bridget Doyle Landscape Design. Bridget is based in Northern Victoria, but was originally from the NSW Riverina so does a lot of work there, but works all around the neighbouring states.

Bridget started out working for companies that design not only residential gardens, but also commercial ones including early learning centres and aged care facilities, so she had a varied start which she also now does within her business.

She talks about the challenges of working in a home office and the isolation of being a solo designer.

Bridget also talks about her own garden and how she selects plants which don't need any irrigation other than rainfall.

You can follow Bridget on Instagram @bd_landscapedesign

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In this episode I answer some questions asked via Instagram.

There were so many that there'll be another Q and A episode next week.

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In this episode, I use a program from Google called NotebookLM to make a podcast reviewing episodes which I uploaded from the previous 10 episodes.

AI technology is phenomenal, but also has its flaws. The hosts (which are AI and don't actually exist) don't even mention three or four of the episodes I uploaded, even thought they seem to run out of content and repeat some of the same things four times.

I did have a good laugh around 90 seconds in when they mention, without any prompting by me, a famous landscape designer!

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In this episode I speak with Brendan Eccleston from Brisbane Landscaping Co, a design and construction company based in Brisbane.

Brendan had a great variety of experience prior to starting his business, which included owning a franchise for a lawn maintenance business, where he didn't make as much money as he'd have liked, but did learn a lot for his future businesses, one of which included a short lived partnership with a mate.

Brendan also discusses his back injury, and how he's able to take a positive out of a bad situation.

You can follow Brendan on Instagram @brisbanelandscapingco

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