Terrarium Workshop with Tammy Huynh

Through hosting workshops, writing for blogs and magazines and presenting on ABC TV’s Gardening Australia, Tammy hopes to educate, inspire and impart a little bit of greenery to everyone’s lives.

Tammy has spent the last 12 years in the horticultural industry and in 2021 received the Australian Institute of Horticulture’s Horticulturist of the Year Award. She has been gardening for most of her life. It started with her ‘po po’ (maternal grandmother), who was always in the garden, cultivating the soil, harvesting goodies, saving seed, and constantly chasing the chooks out of the veggie patch! Tammy loves growing her own food, collecting indoor plants and tending to her worm farm.

Formal studies in architecture, along with travels through Asia and Europe, furthered Scott’s interest in colonial building, domestic design, and the intrinsic relationship between architecture and landscape. This culminated in his PhD ‘Paper Houses’, which examines the significant colonial identity John Macarthur’s interest in architecture, and the design of the Macarthur houses Elizabeth Farm (1793) and Camden Park (1834). In Scott’s words: ‘understanding a historic house, an interior or landscape is for me a process of 'reverse‐designing', about taking the finished product and digging down to find the 'why': the reasons, the decisions and the myriad hidden influences that led to its creation’.

He has been curator at Elizabeth Bay House and Vaucluse House and most recently at Elizabeth Farm, Rouse Hill Estate, and Meroogal; ‘The Curator’ in the award-winning SLM blog The Cook and the Curator; co-curated the Eat Your History: A Shared Table exhibition; and in 2023-24 he was senior curator of the exhibition ‘The People’s House: Sydney Opera House at 50’ at the Museum of Sydney.