MY HEART LIVES By Jac Semmler Photos Sarah Pannell (Insta @sarahpannell) Jac Semmler, director of Super Bloom Plant Practice, followed the beauty and wonder of her Frankston garden 'Heartland' in the writing of Super Bloom: A field guide to flowers for every gardener. A recent release Super Bloom is a cook's companion of flowers filled with fundamentals, profiles and planting partners, a must have garden book. 'To garden on the Peninsula is to be in a community of plant lovers with a gentle climate, the extent to what you can grow and share is so abundant'.
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y heart lives in my garden. In the garden I know who I am – my family, my history, my loves and losses, and my dreams for the future. The practice of gardening and tending plants has nurtured my relationship with the landscape and helped me form a sense of place and identity. There is a wholeness I feel being with plants in the everyday. It is a source of sustenance, strength, freedom, care and calm, and boundless creative expression. Learning about plants and how to nurture them together as a meaningful community within the garden is ever fascinating. It has always been plants for me I grew up on a farm in a rural region of south-eastern Australia I have rich memories of being a country kid immersed in the beauty of bushland and family gardens These tough gardens, created by my grandmothers and aunts, were wonderlands of rural beauty.
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