SAGIC Convention 2022
SAGIC Convention 2022
Thank you to all attendees, sponsors and partners for attending the SAGIC Convention that was held from June 1st to June 3rd, 2022, at Champagne Sports Resort. Congratulations to all the award winners! Watch this space for more announcements about next year’s Convention!
SAGIC Honours Roll Winners – Congratulations Deighton, Oscar and Mike!
Deighton Clegg has been involved in the landscaping industry for approximately 45 years during which he was a co-founder and shareholder in The Office Plant, Real Landscapes and Lifestyle Garden Centre. He later started Life Landscapes – now Life Green Group together with Oscar Lockwood and Ida-Marie Strydom. Deighton has been very involved in the industry over many years! He excels at growing businesses as well as growing people and instilling in them a love for the green industry.
Oscar Lockwood is a well-known person in the green industry having been a co-founder of The Office Plant, Real Landscapes, as well as Lifestyle Garden Centre. He has also been involved in Transvaal Snake Park, Umgeni River Bird Park and Montecasino Bird Gardens. His contribution to the green industry is enormous.
Mike, along with his two partners, Oscar and Dayton has been very instrumental in changing gardening and garden centres across the country in the past years. Lifestyle Garden Centre is an example of this where a family environment as a destination was created. They insisted on only the best and challenged the industry to up its game! Together they were instrumental in putting the name “garden centre” on the map and making plants and gardening a force to be reckoned with.
SAGIC Training Trophy – Congratulations Terry!
It all started in 1982 when Terry decided on a career change by following her passion for gardening and her life’s calling to teach. She finds that it’s a rewarding and inspiring profession that she has followed and will follow for years to come.
Terry sets out to help people bridge the gap between what they know and what they would like to know. Helping them to achieve their personal goals and connect with like-minded individuals. She has developed various programs and training courses for her clients in their in-house training programmes.
Terry’s journey includes being a principal director of the Lifestyle College of Garden Design and Horticulture. She was in partnership with Rick Smit and offered skills development and training on behalf of SANA members. She also co-ordinated the Garden Centre Competition and Store Development. As stated above she developed training for a diversity of private clients over many years.
These days she is involved with the Daily Bread Organisation – developing skills and leading the community garden initiative at the Leaping Frog Shopping Centre.
SAGIC recognises this invaluable contribution to training in the green industry. Thank you and congratulations Terry.
