Media Factsheet
19 Garden Designers Participating at SGF 2006

• Australia (3 designers)
  • Jim Fogarty is a multiple award-winner including two Best of Show Awards, two Design Excellence Awards and four Gold Medals at the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show. He was also the first Australian show garden designer to win a Chelsea award and he holds a number of Golds from the Melbourne and Sydney Flower Shows
  • Jamie Durie has received over 20 garden design awards both in Australia and internationally and he is also the host of Backyard Blitz and The Block, two of Australia television's highest-rating garden shows
  • Carolyn & Joby Blackman has received 20 awards including 11 Golds at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show. Carolyn co-hosts the Landscape Design and Gardening talkback show on alternate Saturday mornings for radio station ABC774 (3LO)

• France (1 designer)
  • Sibila Jaksic is art director with Signes, an acclaimed landscape design firm with experience in environmental, town planning and landscape design. The firm’s award-winning designs include the Thames Barrier Park in the United Kingdom (UK). Sibila has won top awards in European garden and flower shows

• China (1 designer)
  • Huang Feihu graduated from the Beijing College of Art and Design and specialises in environmental art design, carving and traditional Chinese architecture. He has won Gold awards for his works in the shows such as China’s Flower Exposition and the Dubai Shopping Festival. He also participated in the creation of large-scale landscape exhibits at the 2006 Beijing World Flower Garden.

• Holland (1 designer)
  • Nico Wissing is a pioneer of the Green City concept, advocating greening as integral to building and urban planning. Nico has won top awards in European garden and flower shows. Currently Vice President of the European Landscape Contractors Association, Nico focuses on research and looks into intensifying specialist knowledge and experience for members through international study trips and courses amongst other programmes

• Japan (1 designer)
  • Jun-Ichi Inada has over 28 years of design experience and received the Design Award at the 2004 Hamamatsu International Flower Show and Garden Festival. He was also recognised by the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture with the Grand Prix Award in 2004

• Malaysia (1 designer)
  • Alvin Phang is a member of the Associate American Society of Interior Design and was awarded three Golds at the Malaysia International Landscape & Garden Festival in 2004

• Philippines, The (1 designer)
  • Nonito A Dolera has received multiple awards at flower and garden shows in the Philippines. He has written several papers on orchids and has judged at a number of local and international events

• Singapore (6 designers)
  • Winners from Singapore’s 5th Singapore Institute of Landscape Architects (SILA) Design Award Competition:
    • Henry Steed is a landscape architect and has been resident in Singapore for 23 years, working on a wide variety of master-planning and design projects covering almost all aspects of the modern landscape within the built environment. His work has taken him across the Asian region to the Middle East from Egypt to China. Henry has served on the Council of Singapore Institute of Landscape Architects (SILA) for many years and has made periodic inputs to Government Advisory Panels. Henry is also the winner of the 5th SILA Design Award Competition
    • Stephen Caffyn has over 10 years of international experience and an expanding portfolio of projects in Singapore such as HDB upgrading for Eunos and Marine Crescent and a number of upmarket private apartments. Stephen is also a winner of the 5th SILA (Singapore Institute of Landscape Architects) Design Award Competition
    • Sherman Stave from Sitetectonix specialises in Landscape Architecture, Urban Design and Hotel and Resort development. He is an established designer and holds a Master in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University. Sitetectonix Pte Ltd has won many awards for design excellence, including Gold Medals from Singapore’s Building & Construction Authority (BCA) and the recent SILA Professional Design Awards 2006
  • Winners from the Landscape Industry Association (Singapore) (LIAS) Awards of Excellence 2005:
    • R P Jickky is the Managing Director of Tropical Environment Pte Ltd, and has a keen interest in preserving nature. One of his recent projects, the Singapore Management University (SMU) saw him putting back half of the greenery that was present on-site. His creation of a green wall effect using hanging creepers won the Gold Award at the Landscape Industry Association (Singapore) (LIAS) Awards of Excellence
    • Michael Teh from Nature Landscape Pte Ltd made his mark with landscape projects such as the grounds of top hotels Raffles and Four Seasons, and Changi International Airport. The company also won a Gold Award at this year’s Landscape Industry Association (Singapore) (LIAS) Awards of Excellence. Michael is also currently the chairman of LIAS
    • Peter Cheok is Sales & Marketing Director of Far East Flora Pte Ltd, which won the Gold Award in the Retail Nursery category of this year’s Landscape Industry Association (Singapore) (LIAS) Awards of Excellence. Its flagship store at Thomson has about 500 types of plants presented according to species, potted into decorative pots, to showcase how the plants customers buy will appear in a home-setting. The company also specialises in landscape design

• United Kingdom (2 designers)
  • Julian Dowle is one the world’s most experienced and respected garden designers with 26 award-winning entries at the internationally renowned Chelsea Flower Show including a record of 13 gold medals. He has also judged at the world’s top flower shows including the Chelsea and Melbourne Flower shows
  • Christopher Bradley-Hole is a landscape architect turned garden designer, who has won a number of accolades including three Chelsea Gold Awards. He is one of UK’s most experienced and respected garden designer

• United States (2 designers)
• Michael Bruce is an accomplished garden designer who won two consecutive Best in Show (Floral Design) Awards at the Philadelphia Flower Show in 2005 and 2006
• William Troy Taylor started running his family floral and landscape business at the age of 22. Since then, he has received several accolades from the Philadelphia Flower Show including Best Achievement and People’s Choice Awards for his exhibits