Float Team
Float is the result of a partnership between:
Fleming's Nurseries
Fleming's Nurseries is Australia's leading grower, importer and wholesaler of deciduous fruiting and ornamental trees and shrubs. The company is the largest supplier to the orchard industry in Australia, with approximately half of its business devoted to growing and selling a wide variety of apple, pear and stone-fruit trees to commercial orchards. The other half of the business is focused on the growing and selling of fruit and ornamental trees to retail garden centres, landscapers, property developers and local government.
A family-owned business for four generations, Fleming's Nurseries has grown under the present management of Don Fleming to encompass a workforce of over 100 staff, 7 properties, 1000 hectares of nursery and plantings of 1.75 million bare-root trees each year.
Much of Fleming's Nurseries success can be attributed to its associations with overseas companies and its focus on introducing new and improved varieties to the Australian market. The company established Australia's first private quarantine screen house for fruiting cultivars and has imported over 2,300 new fruit and ornamental cultivars into Australia during the past 15 years.
It is largely this international approach to the nursery business that led to Fleming's participation in the Chelsea Flower Show. With the aim of showcasing the Australian horticulture, design and landscaping industry at an international level, Fleming's Nurseries was the driving force behind the first ever Australian show garden at the 2004 show. Having won Silver-Gilt with 'Australian Inspiration' that year, now they are back in 2005 to present the Fleming's Nurseries Float* garden, an adaptation of Jack Merlo's award-winning design from the 2004 Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show.
Back home in Australia, Fleming's continues to support local landscape design talent. Each year, Australian and New Zealand students are invited to enter the Fleming's Student Design Competition. This competition allows students to explore new ideas, push design boundaries and gain valuable exposure within the industry. The four winning designs are displayed at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, and the winner receives a cash prize as well as a trip to the Chelsea Flower Show.
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Jack Merlo Design
Jack Merlo Design is a fully integrated landscape design and construction company widely celebrated for both creative ingenuity and quality of work. The company's prestigious domestic and commercial landscapes have garnered numerious awards including the Gold Medal for Design Excellence at the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show in 2000 and 2001, and at the Ellerslie Flower Show (Auckland) in 2000.
Our experience ranges across any scale or style of project from the inherent difficulties of inner-city courtyards to beachfront gardens to large residential and corporate properties.
We place an emphasis on accommodating our clients' lifestyle requirements while complementing the architectural style of surrounding buildings and structures. Our strong attention to detail and emphasis on quality finishings ensures our projects stand the test of time both in terms of aesthetics and durability.
In addition to landscapes and gardens our service includes furniture design and installation, pool areas, outdoor entertaining spaces, pavilions and pergolas.
We encourage clients to use our uniquely comprehensive construction service from design through to final construction phase. By using Jack Merlo Design's professional team of subcontractors clients get continuity of control that allows a single point of contact, ensures the project follows the approved design and that the final selection of plants, materials, lights and furniture pieces meet our high standard of delivery.
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T.L.C. Total Landscape and Construction
From its base in Melbourne, T.L.C. Total Landscape and Construction specialises in the construction of residential gardens of all sizes, and has more recently expanded into pool construction, offering a complete package that comprises a pool, landscape design and construction.
T.L.C. has a proven track record in constructing show gardens for the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show (MIFGS). Past projects include the Landscape Industry Association of Victoria display garden in 1998 and the silver medal-winning Eco Recycle show garden in 1999. The year 2000 marked the beginning of a long association with Fleming's Nurseries at MIFGS, when T.L.C. was commissioned to construct the gardens of the four finalists from the Fleming's Student Design Competition; a year later, T.L.C. took over the project management of the student gardens as well.
T.L.C. was founded in 1993 by Scott Wynd. Trained at North Melbourne Institute of Technology, Scott has won numerous awards including the Beazley Award for Landscape at NMIT in 1991, the National Worldskills gold medal at Sydney in 1993, and an Award of Excellence from the Landscape Industry Association of Victoria in 2002.
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