Our Team
Ian Barker
Director
Interests: Spending time with family & friends at our farm
Favourite Sport: Skiing
Favourite Plant: Echinacea purpurea
Daniel Rawson
Design Manager
Interests: I enjoy most sports, in particular cricket. Keeping fit and active
Favourite Plant: Eucalyptus mannifera
Favourite Singer: City and Colour
Steve Lowe
Landscape Manager
Interests: Golf, Water Ski, Footy, Snow Boarding
Favourite season: Autumn – Cut back and cull a lot of plants and plan for the spring. Colour changes in the trees
Favourite singer or band: Florence Welch (Florence & The Machine) and Zach De la Rocha-Rage Against the Machine
Paul Jones
Maintenance Manager
Interests: Mountain bike riding
Where would you most like to go in the world? Galapagos Islands
Favourite Ice Cream Flavour: Choc Berry
Sandra Jacobsen
Accounts Manager
Interests: Tennis, golf & shopping
Favourite Season: Summer. I love cutting the grass in the sunshine
Favourite Ice Cream Flavour: Raspberry
Kym Kearney
Marketing Manager
Interests: Keeping fit, cooking, music, dancing, playing with my kids and spending time with family and friends
Favourite season: Summer, what’s not to love??? Hot balmy nights and spending time at the beach!
Favourite restaurant: Sake Restaurant & Bar
Gillian Ashley
Landscape Designer
Interests: Visiting gardens, collecting rare plants, architecture and writing
Where in the world would you most like to go? To see the Northern Lights
Favourite Plant: Frittilaria meleagris
Favourite Band: Goldfrapp
Jarrod Castagna
Apprentice Landscaper
Interests: I enjoy dirt bike riding and the outdoors
Where in the world would you most like to go: Road trips around Australia and Switzerland
Favourite Ice-cream Flavour: Choc mint
Andrew Clancy
Maintenance Supervisor
Interests: Coaching my son’s cricket team (Carnegie Cricket Club U/11’s), which I enjoy immensely
Where would you most like to go in the world? Buenos Aires, Argentina
Joe Cummins
Maintenance Gardener
Interests: Reading, listening to and writing music, literature, playing in my band, going to gigs and following my sporting teams
Favourite Book: The Rings of Saturn by WB Sebald
Favourite Sport: Playing soccer and watching rugby league
Kurt Davey
Apprentice Landscaper
Interests: Surfing, fishing, camping, 4×4, moto ride and photography
Favourite Colour: Purple
Favourite Book: The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Connor Davidson
Apprentice Landscaper
Interests: Cycling, running and drawing
Favourite season: Spring, the change from cold to warm – plant growth!
Favourite Movie: Tomorrowland
Daniel Eastman
Qualified Landscaper
Interests: Playing sport (football, cricket, soccer, golf), playing music and going to gigs
Favourite Plant: Ficus macrophylla (Moreton Bay Fig)
Favourite Movie: Lord of the Rings (all three)
Ryan Gallagher
Apprentice Landscaper
What is your favourite season and why? Winter – snow forts, snowboarding and skating
Hockey team: Montreal Canadians
Favourite book: The Hobbit
Brendan Gallop
Apprentice Landscaper
Interests: Footy and basketball
Where in the world would you most like to go? North America
Favourite ice cream flavour: Cookies and Cream
Ben Lockwood
Qualified Landscaper
Interests: Rugby, fishing & cooking
What is your favourite season and why? Summer because it’s sunny and hot – perfect for beach and boat!
Favourite Plant: Allium giganteum
Favourite Movie: Die Hard
Sharna Manktelow
Administration Assistant
Interests: Reading lots of books, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Hunger Games!
Where would you most like to go in the world? Back to Scotland, beautiful countryside full of castles
Favourite Ice Cream Flavour: Cookies and Cream
Brayden Murrihy
Landscape Architect
Interests: Soccer, running, surfing, drawing, reading and seeing friends
Favourite Movie: The Shawshank Redemption
Favourite Book: A Song of Ice and Fire
Emma Permezel
Administration Assistant
Favourite ice cream flavour: Ben and Jerry’s Phish food flavour
Favourite Movie: Love Actually
Favourite book: The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Celeste Rech
Office Manager
Interests: Art galleries, road trips, friends, anything fun and spontaneous
Favourite Plant: Gerberas & Sunflowers – I love bright flowers
Favourite Cuisine: Thai food
Chris Ruck
Qualified Landscaper
Interests: Hanging out with mates and family, keeping fit, playstation, movies, tv shows
Favourite Plant: Acer palmatum ‘October Glory’
Favourite Colour: Blue