26 Aug 2011
How did you get started in the industry?
28 Apr 2011
How did you get started in the industry?
I was hit by the gardening bug when I was 13 years old and ruining the garden with a football. I trod on a blue gentian and looked at a book to see what it was and saw this blue trumpet flower with mountains behind. My mum was a keen rock gardener and I got...
08 Apr 2011
- How did you get started?
I attended Brymore School to study agriculture and horticulture and then studied at Cannington College of Agriculture Horticulture. During my time at college, I also worked at Monkton Elm Garden Pet Centre. I worked my way up to assistant manager from a work experience...
01 Mar 2011
- How did you first get started in horticulture?
14 Jan 2011
How did you get started?
After moving to the Netherlands, I was looking for a new opportunity and, with a background in horticulture, visited Lutgo Recruitment to see whether they could help me. They offered me a part-time role as an assistant and within a year asked me to become one of their recruitment...
17 Dec 2010
- How did you get started?
I started as a volunteer raising money and discussing plans for a new community garden. I realised the need for people to learn about nature locally and set up the Garden Classroom as a non-profit organisation to address this after winning a local social enterprise competition....
10 Dec 2010
- How did you get started?
03 Sep 2010
- 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?...
20 Aug 2010
| by Jack Sidders
Steve Ashworth has a challenge on his hands.
20 Aug 2010
How did you get into horticulture? My first horticultural memory was planting bulbs with my nan when I was about eight.