Jeremy Killian
was born in Cape Town and has lived in the shadow of Table Mountain all
his life. Growing in upper University Estate with Devils Peak Mountain
as his back door, Jeremy and his two brothers made the mountain their
play ground. Years of boyish treks up Devils Peak and with a father who
loved plants, Jeremy soon found appreciation of the Capes floral
wonders.
With Natures Blueprint he has been featured in the Cape Times and the
Argus along with other community papers. Jeremy has been involved with
many prominent projects, most notably, Lanzerac Manor Hotel, on behalf
of the Wiese family.
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“Gardens,
by definition, never reach their peak, constantly
flittering with completion, they need constant care to
keep them on the ceiling of perfection”
Natures Blueprint Horticultural Services
is a value added service company, offering imaginative Design
Solutions, cost and time accurate Landscape Construction and on going
Pro Active Maintenance. Offering a full Horticultural Service menu, our
service has been designed to take clients from inception to integration
and well beyond to continued Style & Seasonal Maintenance. A self
styled Exterior Design and Construction company, we design, build and
maintain all aspects that make up a beautiful garden or landscaped
space and individualise these to suit our clients brief. With years of
experience and a hands on approach, we care for the small things that
make our service unique, like cost effective, punctual and quality
service.
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He is
always quoted as saying “what I remember the most is the smell of
fynbos, the rich oils are un mistakable and the hum of the abundant
life making the mountain their home”. Its funny how he also come to
love the smell of the bush fire, which is so important to fynbos
rejuvenation, as having a father who was a Cape Town fire fighter for
30 years, used to savour the smell on his fathers overalls after
returning home safe from Cape Towns many bush fires on the slopes of
the mountain ranges. “Growing up in Cape town, we never really
appreciated the beauty we have, its only after I was introduced to the
many plants our unique mountain offers the world, did I re appreciate
all my boyish treks up the mountain”
Jeremy
has been gardening since 1994, initially working alongside Fritz Rabe
of Murray Rabe Associates, learning from a master of design and lateral
thinking. “Years spent with Fritz where the seeds of my imagination
were sown, gave me the love of individual, intuitive solutions I so
crave, making each garden I encounter a test of my creative abilities”
Jeremy
has been featured in the Cape Times, Cape Argus and various Community
Newspapers for his book, Natures Blueprint. Its is a self help
gardening almanac for novice, want to be gardeners and was the result
of years of notes, penned in the trenches of gardening. “I noticed
there wasn’t a guide for new gardeners that didn’t get the ‘hand me
down’ knowledge most avid gardeners got from their parents or grand
parents”.
Jeremy
has won awards for his creative design, most notable a silver guild at
the 2006 SAA CAPE TOWN FLOWER SHOW, has Landscaped award winning
Properties such as LANZERAC MANOR HOTEL in Stellenbosch and maintains
properties for some of Cape Towns prominent property agencies &
personalities. “Residential landscaping still gives me the most buzz,
its intimate work that gives my clients the most joy. Seeing the
difference, in the garden and on my clients face when a successful
project is concluded, stokes my professional fire and appeases my
thirst for client satisfaction at the same time, Yin & Yang”
Jeremy
started his company Natures Blueprint in 2002, after successfully
opening two companies, Greens Landscaping cc for Robert Goskar in JHB
& Ground Force Gardening cc for Egon Klein on a contract in Cape
Town. “Opening three companies in 4 years gave me the test bed I needed
to get my formula right, learning how not to do things only comes when
you actually do things, so I was lucky to get two shots at it before I
honed my particular style of application”.
Since
then, Jeremy has lead his team from the front, building a company that
can be relied upon to deliver, beyond the norm. Taking each and every
project as his own garden, Jeremy and his team have built many gardens
and delivered on the dreams of his clients.
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