Claim OwnershipThe Landscaping Podcast
Subscribed: 57Played: 2,550
Subscribe
© 2025 The Landscaping Podcast
Description
A Podcast where landscaper Joel Barnett of InStyle Gardens, chats with other people within the landscaping/green industry. We chat with Landscape designers, landscape builders, garden maintenance folks, nursery folks, and anyone else within this awesome industry!
270 Episodes
Reverse
In this episode, the final for 2025, I speak with Breana Graham from Breana Graham Landscapes, a landscape architecture/design business based in Sydney working on high end residential projects. Breana makes some great points in this chat about the importance of challenging the relationship between architect and builder so that they both improve. She also talks about the way she does her plant schedules within her designs, which is a way I hadn't heard of before, but makes a lot of sense w...
In this episode I catch with friend of the show, Peter Donegan from Peter Donegan Garden Design, a designer based in Ireland. I always love chatting with Peter and hearing the creativity behind his designs, and in this episode he talks about a couple of recent award victories, including one we're he'll be representing Europe. He also talks about his recent trip to a University in Turkey, as well as a potential garden he'll be designing in Australia. You can follow Peter on Instagram @pe...
In this episode I speak with Chris Varsamakis from Zorbas Gardens, a design, construction and maintenance business based just outside of Geelong in Teesdale. Chris has gone from having his first horticultural job 3 years ago, to being a solo operator as recently as 14 months ago, to now having 7 full time employees as well as a couple of sub contractors on his books, so he's grown very quick, but as you'll hear, it's been measured growth and he's doing a lot of the right things to mak...
In this episode I speak with Patrick Hudecek from Peak Project Group, a landscaping company based in Mansfield, Victoria building high end landscapes in the high country. Patrick initially started the business himself, and around 12 months ago had two other team members come on board as partners in the business, and he explains why it's working so well in the partnership. He also explains how they have weekly meetings between the partners and daily short site chats to let everyone on site...
In this episode I speak with Tim Hanna from Hanna Digital Design, a design company based in Vietnam who convert 2D designs into stunning 3D renders as well as doing elevation drawings. Tim talks about how he started his apprenticeship in Parks and Gardens in Melbourne, working in garden maintenance for a couple of big name businesses before starting out on his own and having up to 6 employees, and then moving over to Vietnam where he started Hanna Digital Designs and now employs 8 staff. ...
In this episode I speak with Natalie Back from Living Earth Design. Natalie is a landscape designer based in Melbourne and while only early into her design career, it's clear she has a great business mind and there's plenty to learn from her in this episode. She talks about how valuable it's been being part of Landscaping Victoria's mentor program, where she's being mentored by Peter Shaw. She also talks about her experience designing and building a garden at MIFGS this year with Open Gar...
In this episode I catch up again with Amy Downie from the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. Amy was last on about 6 months ago on episode 236 and she spoke about how at the Botanic Gardens, she works on escarpment horticulture, and that she was hopeful of one day going on a trip where they'd need to climb on a 300m cliff to get the seeds of an endangered Eucalypt, Eucalyptus stenostoma. Well she just got back from that exact trip, so I wanted to get her on to hear all about it and what could...
In this episode I answer some questions asked via Instagram. Regular episodes will return next week If you're wanting to sign up to be on the mailing list for The Landscaping School, you can find the link here. You can follow along with the projects we're currently working on via our Instagram page @instyle_gardens @thelandscapingpodcast You can view each episode on our YouTube channel
In this episode I speak with Tyler Howard. Tyler is a horticulturist based in NSW and is an extremely knowledgeable fella, so much so that he was awarded the AIH Horticulturist Of The Year for 2025 by the Australian Institute of Horticulture. He's also been a recipient of the Global Footprints Scholarship where he travelled overseas to work on some of the world's best gardens, and created great contacts while there, to the point where he's travelled back to work at the Chelsea Flower Show f...
In this episode I speak with Amy Drought from Greencare Project. Amy works as a horticulturist at Greencare and has done for a little over 6 months. She started her passion for the industry hanging out with her dad in their productive permaculture garden at home and has built on the passion from there, getting her certificate in horticulture, planning on getting one in Parks and Gardens and also Landscape and Garden Design. Amy has also recently been awarded a scholarship for the global f...
In this episode I speak with Vic Jones from Smove Studio, a landscape design company based in Melbourne. Vic previously worked for past guest Nadia from Platylobium before achieving her goal of starting a business before she turned 25, which she turned last Monday. Even though Vic only started the business in February this year, some 8 months ago, there's some great advice to learn from her about the way she's gone about it. From having other employment in case she isn't overwhelmed w...
In this episode I speak with Emma Doman from Emma Doman Design. Emma is a landscape architect based in Brisbane, but works on projects all around Australia. She started out working in the commercial area of landscape architecture, and after 17 years there, made the move to residential when she started her business, two weeks prior to her second child being born! Emma talks about the differences between commercial and residential design, and what things she was able to bring across to her ...
In this episode I speak with Tim Fogarty, one of two directors at Loci Landscapes, a design, construction and maintenance company based in Tasmania who focus solely on using Australian native plants. Loci Landscapes existed prior to Tim joining the business, so we discuss how thie business looked when Tim joined compared to now, roughly 3-4 years later, and we also discuss what Tim was doing in the industry prior to joining Loci, which was working alongside Charlie Albone at Inspired Exteri...
In this episode, or non-episode, I explain why there was no episode last week or this week, but that normal episodes will resume next week, barring any unexpected medical emergency If you're wanting to sign up to be on the mailing list for The Landscaping School, you can find the link here. You can follow along with the projects we're currently working on via our Instagram page @instyle_gardens @thelandscapingpodcast You can view each episode on our YouTube channel
In this episode I speak with Dylan Barker from Jade Built, a landscape construction company based in Brisbane, and unfortunately we had some technical difficulties with the Zoom camera, and it's on me the whole time. So not great if you're watching on YouTube, but the audio is 100% fine for podcast listeners. Dylan runs a 10 person team and has worked in residential and commercial, and worked for not only last weeks guest, Paul Pritchard, but also for another past guest from a month ago, Sc...
In this episode I speak again with Paul Pritchard from Paul Pritchard Landscape Design. We catch up on what his experience was like winning a gold medal and best construction at this years MIFGS. He also talks about some of the phenomenal gardens he saw in France and his thoughts on the Chelsea Flower Show. We also talk about my upcoming garden show build next year. You can follow Paul on Instagram @paulpritchardlandscapedesign and you can listen to his previous episodes on Episode 69...
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 al...
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 If you're ...
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 on...
In this episode I answer some questions asked via Instagram. Regular episodes will return next week If you're wanting to sign up to be on the mailing list for The Landscaping School, you can find the link here. You can follow along with the projects we're currently working on via our Instagram page @instyle_gardens @thelandscapingpodcast You can view each episode on our YouTube channel
Download from Google Play
Download from App Store
United States
eally enjoyed this episode! Hearing Tim’s journey and the focus on native plants was very inspiring. I’ve been looking into different outdoor design ideas myself, and recently came across some great examples of https://www.landviewbclandscaping.ca/paver-patios . It’s amazing how much they can transform a backyard into a stylish and functional space.