Launch and Book Signing—Flower Power

Join author Jac Semmler at Bookshop by Uro as she celebrates the release of her new book Flower Power - Designing Gardens for Year Round Wonder. 

Come and spend an afternoon with Jac Semmler and RMIT's Fiona Harrisson, as they discuss Jac's new book Flower Power, followed by a book signing. 

Where Super Bloom provided the ‘ingredients’ to create a garden, Flower Power is 'the recipe', offering guidance on how to create an immersive, year-round floral wonderland—a garden with layers of heroic and supportive plants and flowers, textures and patterns, resilience and delight, no matter the season or climate.

When: 3pm Saturday 18 April 2026

Where: Bookshop by Uro, 5/30 Perry Street, Collingwood (Collingwood Yards)

Tickets: FREE (RSVP here)

 

About the speakers

 

Jac Semmler is a plant practitioner and director of award winning Super Bloom plant practice bringing dynamic living beauty, diversity and delight through planting design, high skill horticulture and plant x art projects, with a mission of 'plants for the people' in a changing climate. With over 20 years of considered experience with plants and people, the interface of public experience and wondrous resilient future forward planting is Jac’s singular super power.

Dr Fiona Harrison is a practising designer and academic with the Landscape Architecture program at RMIT University, whose teaching and research explore embodied practices and participatory ways of knowing that situate human beings as continuous with a living world. Her creative practice PhD explored the aliveness of landscape through cultivating attentive ways of being, knowing and making, moving between garden and forest. Her practice responds to issues of ecological decline and biodiversity through a micro lens, paying careful attention to the dynamics above and below ground while also considering landscape through multiple perspectives, including the ‘eyes’ of other-than-humans.