- How did you get started? My first degree was in botany and zoology. I see myself as a biologist and educationalist with a great love of horticulture. You can't fail to notice what tends to happen when money gets tight - organisations that don't have strategic objectives to provide education, as...
How did you get started? My first business was a macrobiotic restaurant, which opened in 1967 and was a mecca for lovers of brown rice and other organic goodies. This evolved into Whole Earth Foods and out of that came Green Black's, the first organic chocolate. What advice would you give to others...
- How did you get started in the industry? I'm a qualified transport engineer, but I got made redundant in about 1990 and I found it very difficult to get a job, basically because of being over-skilled. My dad was a gardener and we had done a lot of sweet pea growing so I decided to take a book out...
- How did you get started? Throughout my childhood, I was dragged around garden centres, begrudgingly. Then, at 15, I started to think to my future and didn't like the prospect of constantly being in a stuffy office, filing endless paperwork. I wanted to something creative, preferably in the great...
- How did you get started? I was brought up in the family's horticultural business then trained in agriculture. In 2000, I left the business to become self-employed in work interests that related more closely to my beliefs and lifestyle. This involved a number of roles in horticulture, one of which...
- How did you first get started in horticulture?
How did you get started? I first studied design and business studies, then went on to study horticulture. After that, I incorporated a limited company that designed, built and maintained landscapes. What advice would you give to others starting out? Be bold, aim for the impossible. I always try...
- How did you get started? I started with a business start-up grant of 60 per fortnight from Mrs Thatcher in 1986. You had to have been unemployed for six months and have 1,000 in savings to qualify. - What does your typical day involve? I go to the office around 8am to check that the staff...
- How did you get started? I started at Lee Valley Regional Park as assistant gardener in 1979 at 19 years of age. I had been a keen gardener since I was 12 years old. Three years later I was offered training at Capel Manor Horticultural College. In 1986 I studied at Oaklands College in St Albans,...
- How did you get started? I became interested in landscaping while at college studying art and the built environment. I was always more practically-minded rather than academically - I preferred more hands-on subjects. Although I did not do so well on the academic side, it definitely got me interested...
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