Mehmet Yilmaz was born in Nizip/Gaziantep Turkey. When his father left to Germany to work in the seventies, his sister and Mehmet Yilmaz followed him a few years later. As a young boy, Mehmet Yilmaz went to the Lersch-Family-Nursery in Bad Neuenahr. He helped Mr Lersch senior in the garden for several hours a week, for a couple of years. After leaving school Mehmet Yilmaz started his education of being a florist (which at that time was very unusual for a boy of his oriental upbringing, culturally very unexpected from his family). After three years of education Mehmet Yilmaz did the examination to be a professional Florist. After this important step he went to Cologne to work for a couple of years at well reputed shops in the city (Blumen Berthold Müller, Blumen Jahn, Floristik Rosinsky and finally as a Department Floristry Manager in the Heinen_Brother Gardens in Cologne-Junkersdorf).