In this episode I speak with Rob Mihailescu from The Cutting Hedge Landscaping. Rob is a qualified horticulturist and landscape designer, and got into the industry after working as a fine dining chef.

I met Rob at a Landscaping Victoria night and after a brief chat with him, knew immediately that he'd be a great guest to have on the podcast, and he shares plenty of tips and advice in this episode.

He's also got a phenomenal garden at his own house, so we talk plenty about that and it's also the garden that features heavily on his Instagram page.

You can follow Rob on Instagram @the_cutting_hedge_landscaping

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In this episode I speak with Suzanne Lefroy from Lefroy Landscape Design, a one person landscape design business based in Perth.

Suzanne has a great story about how she started in the industry, studying at Tafe.

She also has some great reasoning about why she's running the business the way she is, including the types of projects she works on.

Suzanne has a unique looking Instagram profile where she's using Grid Posts, so it's well worth checking it out @lefroylandscapedesign

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In this episode I speak with Scott Wynd from TLC Pools.

Scott is someone I've looked up to in the industry for as long as I've been aware of him, with his show garden at MIFGS in 2011 being one of my earliest memories of a garden show build. It just so happened to be a smaller version of the garden he'd designed and built at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2010, winning a Gold medal.

Scott was fortunate to start in the industry working for a company which did pools and landscaping, and then once he was qualified he started out on his own, but built relationships with other allied business owners to help them get work and appear like a bigger team, rather than individual businesses.

You can follow Scott on Instagram @tlc_pools

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In this episode I answer some questions asked via Instagram.

Regular episodes will return next week

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In this episode I speak with the Icon of our industry, Graham Ross.

It was an absolute honour to have Graham agree to come on the podcast, and while the episode goes for about 70mins, I could've spoken to him for 5 hours!

It was an absolutely fascinating chat and is one I'll listen to multiple times!

You can follow Graham on Instagram @realgrahamross

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In this episode I speak with Aaron Holman from Aaron Holman Landscape Design. Aaron has worked in design and construction during his time in the industry, and is currently in the process of studying Psychology to make a pivot and help out men with the health and wellbeing.

We discuss both his time in the industry, where we talk about the value of working for a good company (Aaron has worked for good and bad) as well as his time studying Landscape Architecture, and what it's been like for him studying psychology.

Aaron has a few tips throughout the episode how both men and women can improve themselves.

You can follow Aaron on Instagram @aaronholmanlandscapedesign and @acornerformen

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In this episode I speak with Kathleen Murphy from Kathleen Murphy Landscape Design. 

Kathleen has a great story about not only working as a designer for 20 years, but also then how she pivoted to her main business now, which is Design Your Dream Garden, an online course where she teaches people how to design like she did, so that they can do their own garden or for others.

Kathleen also talks about some of the important things she discovered when designing, being the relationships with others in the industry.

You can follow Kathleen on Instagram @kmldesign_gardens

You can find out more about her online design course here, and get 20% off the regular full price using the code Joel20

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In this episode I speak with Tahlia Webster from Yergan Landscape and also My Home Harvest. 

Tahlia is a horticulturist and works at Yergan Landscape as a Garden Designer and Maintenance Manager, and also has her own business, My Home Harvest, where she's doing workshops, talks and education around sustainable and organic gardening.

As well as discussing how she started in the industry, in the episode we talk about Tahlia's experience at MIFGS and also then heading to Chelsea flower show.

You can follow Tahlia on Instagram @myhomeharvest.adl and @yerganlandscape

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In this episode I speak with Jason Schulz from Yergan Landscape, a one stop company based in Adelaide doing design, construction, maintenance and pool building.

Jason talks about his involvement in the Gold medal, best in show winning garden at this years MIFGS, as well as his trip to the Chelsea Flower Show.

He has a great passion for the industry and teaching others, and mentions the importance of starting with the basics a couple of times in this chat.

You can follow Jason on Instagram @yerganlandscape
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In this episode I have the pleasure of speaking with Craig Castree, and absolutely loved it!

Craig is an edible garden expert and has a wealth of knowledge which he willingly shares, and explains in an understandable way.

He talks about his experience with the Werribee Park Heritage Orchard where they have 115 different Peach trees, more than 60 types of Cherry, and he also talks about his own 5 different apple trees at home, where he's grafted 18 different varieties of apple onto those 5 trees!

Craig has a new book out called "Soil is not a dirty word", and he talks plenty about soil in this episode, and has a great saying "Stop feeding the plants and start feeding the soil"

You can follow Craig on Instagram @craigcastree and he has a great bio, with links to everything else he's involved in, making it all easy to find.

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