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The Landscape Designer - Scott Wynd of TLC

Scott Wynd is no stranger to Flower Shows, having been involved with the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show for over 10 years, as both a landscape designer and landscape contractor.

Scott has also designed show gardens for Sydney in Bloom, the HIA Home Ideas Show and the Royal Melbourne Show.

Without exception the show gardens that Scott designs have great public appeal and generate enormous interest from visitors and media alike.

Scott Wynd's Bio

Growing up in a working class environment, by 12 years of age Scott Wynd knew he was not going to follow in his father’s footsteps as a plumber. Wanting to do something creative he was leaning towards a career as a chef when he changed his mind to follow his love of plants and gardens into the landscaping industry.

Starting by mowing lawns in his local area from the age of 13 and landscaping the family front yard at the age of 16, Scott secured an apprenticeship as a Landscape Gardener at the age of 17.

Finding the apprenticeship slow going, and a desire to work to his own pace, Scott left the company the day he received his papers to start his own business , now known as Total Landscape and Construction (TLC).

‘It was not that I was money hungry or business minded, l simply wanted to design what I built. With a love for what I did I worked for nearly the same wage as the apprentices I employed and was more than happy.’

Loving his work and finding no shortage of it, Scott put aside original plans to enter University to study Landscape Architecture while he gained the necessary and invaluable ‘hands-on’ skills of landscape construction.

After nearly nine years, Scott realised it was time to pursue that tertiary qualification. He was accepted into RMIT to study Landscape Architecture, all the while running a business with six employees.

After nearly two years of trying to balance an ever-growing workload, business pressures, staff and school, Scott realised something had to give. His love for pools and associated landscapes was his passion rather than the public spaces that his course in landscape architecture focussed on.

In 2005 Wes Fleming approached Scott to take his TLC crew to London to build the Jack Merlo-designed Australian entry at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2005. It was then he knew it was impossible for anyone to run a business, construct a show garden at Chelsea and go to uni. So study was traded in for the start of the Chelsea experience.

‘Four years of project managing the construction of Fleming’s Australian gardens, where l have been fortunate to work with some of Australia’s best designers competing on the world stage, has made me acutely aware of the intensity and dedication needed to design and build a quality Chelsea show garden.

‘Now it is my turn to match it with the best. It’s hugely exciting to have complete freedom to develop a garden incorporating landscape, horticultural and pool design. I have designed a garden for outdoor entertaining that is bold in statement but very practical as a recreational space’, Scott said.