- How did you get started? I got started back in 1997 when I spotted the opportunity to join the laboratory at British Seed Houses. I thoroughly enjoyed my four years working in the lab and became a qualified seed analyst in grasses, cereals and brassicas. Summer months were also good back then because...
How did you get started? I studied for a BSc degree in agricultural chemistry at Wye College and did a PhD in agronomy and soil science at the University of Nottingham. I then spent five years teaching in the Department of Agriculture Horticulture. I began my commercial career with a regional agricultural...
How did you get started? I started work at Wyevale Nurseries shortly after I left school. I then went on to study at Pershore College, finding open ground production to be my forte. I was given the opportunity to specialise further when I was offered a post at Wyevale Transplants. What advice would...
- How did you get started? After school I would go home and look after my mother's vegetable garden and bedding plants and then sell the vegetables to the teachers at school. - What advice would you give others starting out? To succeed in the industry you need a passion for plants. - What does...
How did you get started? As a child I was a plantaholic. I tried to grow everything and learnt a lot about gardening from my grandfather. As part of my Israeli national service I was lucky to manage large-scale horticultural projects. While studying for a degree in horticulture I set up a business...
- How did you get started in your career? I enjoyed rural studies at school so much that I went on to Cannington Horticultural College to study for a BTEC national diploma in horticulture. After college I worked for Blackmore Langdon Nursery, Cleeve Nursery and Homebase, where I was a horticultural...
How did you get started in your career? I come from a farming family so I have been around plants since childhood. I come from Greece originally and I did my first degree there. I then moved to the UK to further my studies with an MSc in horticulture and a PhD in plant physiology at the University...
- What made you choose to study horticulture? My father, a keen gardener, sparked my interest for working outside and with plants at a young age. Later, I gained some experience with Appleby Landscape Gardens. Then I chose forestry at Bangor. - What advice would you give others starting out?...
- How did you get started? Fred Dibnah, or one of his lads, brought down a redundant brick factory chimney behind our house. The quarry was reclaimed as a park. The environmental transformation of this redundant eyesore became a lifetime inspiration. I joined a golf design practice in the late 1980s...
Steve Ashworth has a challenge on his hands.
Click 
to remove filters
NEWS: Senior parks staff exodus sparks alarm across capital
RETAIL: Garden centres look to supermarkets
MARKET REPORT: Ride-on mowers
INTERVIEW: Cruickshank Botanic Garden curator Mark Paterson
EDIBLES: Brassica conference news round-up
Latest Tenders
Contract for the Supply of Horticultural Machinery & Equipment
Sunderland City Council
CONTRACTS FOR THE SUPPLY OF PARKS
MAINTENANCE AND TREES MAINTENANCE
Wandsworth Borough Council
Haymarket Business Media © 1957 – 2012
