- What does your typical day involve? I start early. I'm up at five and out by half past. Then I have at least an hour's drive before I get to work. I'm working long days - including the travel to work I'm doing about 12- to 13-hour days. I spend the day felling trees and pruning and planting as...
How did you break into the industry? I started gardening when I was about 10 years old, with a gentleman around the corner from my house who was a head gardener. I worked with him for eight years, at the weekends. Later I went to university and went into sales. I decided to swap the City for the...
How did you break into the industry? Quite spontaneously. Although I have loved gardening since a young boy, and have designed and maintained my own gardens, I had no concrete plans to go into the industry. But I did want to own a business that would be different from a normal garden centre. On...
- How did you get into horticulture? When I was young I used to help my mum in the garden. I was amazed that the sticks I planted in the ground would grow. When I left school I went to Writtle College to do a three-year National Diploma, which I've just finished. In my sandwich year I worked at Cobham...
- What does your typical day involve? It depends on the season. I ensure the watering is done, do pest and disease checks, and make sure the area is tidy and clean for customers by deadheading and weeding. I have to organise my staff; the numbers of the workforce change throughout the year. In December...
How did you break into the industry? I joined as a parks apprentice many years ago in Bristol. I went into it because I liked being outdoors and I was interested in plants. I soon realised it meant working outdoors in all sorts of winds and weathers, getting up early in the morning and hard physical...
- What is your typical day? It differs between summer and winter.Right now it's mostly inspections. My day starts at 7.30am, when I draw up a plan of work for the day with the team, then go out inspecting individual trees in response to requests from tenants. These could be to do with issues of light...
- How did you break into the industry? When I was eight, the local carpenter made me a glasshouse.I started growing my own vegetables and bedding plants. Then, when I went to my local village school, I was involved with growing vegetables for the school kitchen. After A Levels I worked at Pennells...
- What is your typical day? I arrive at 8am and then we gather round the mess room and have a brief talk about what we will do that day. There is no typical day. I look after the herbaceous border and make a design plan for it every year. In April to June I am staking and tying. But we all muck in...
- What does your typical day involve? Every day is different. We're unlike a lot of gardens in that there are always events on. I can be asked to coordinate an event, which could be anything from theatre to setting up a sculpture exhibit. I have a weekly meeting with area supervisors when we agree...
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