- How did you get started in the industry? After working in Amsterdam for seven years, I felt it was time to go home to Devon. I was offered a job in the marketing and PR department at Suttons Seeds due to my previous experience and haven't looked back. - What advice would you give to others starting...
How did you get started in the industry? I come from four generations of gardeners. My father was a craftsman gardener before becoming a trade unions boss. After he retired he started a maintenance round and I worked with him while studying for my first degree in sculpture. After five years in the...
Steve Searle, shop manager, Monkton Elm Garden & Pet Centre, Taunton, Somerset.
- How did you get started in the industry? My parents started the nursery in the 1970s and after their retirement last year and a change in ownership, I am now running the business. I joined 20 years ago and have been hands on growing and expanding it into the largest specialist geranium nursery...
How did you get started in the industry? I wanted a career change and to be outdoors. My dad mentioned horticulture and I found courses at the Rodbaston campus of the South Staffordshire College that interested me. I decided on an apprenticeship - learning and earning at the same time. I am now deputy...
How did you get started in the industry? I volunteered for six months in the gardens of the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales. After that I went to Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh and did the first year of the horticulture with plantsmanship HND. Now I'm on a sandwich year at Threave before...
- What's your typical day? I get up at about seven and have breakfast with Sally and my two children - I try and take the kids to school if I'm working from the office. The day's work begins at nine, and consists of design, production, marketing, finance, legals and so on. I finish around 6pm....
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...
- How did you get started in the industry? I inherited a passion for gardening and fish-keeping from my grandad. This led to a BSc in aquatic biology and a job with Barton Grange Garden Centre in Lancashire. From there I moved to aquatic specialist Cyprio, before joining in the Hozelock marketing...
- How did you get started in the industry? I wrote to Spurs while finishing my GCSEs. I explained my background about how my dad was a head groundsman at a private school and that I grew up assisting him from time to time, and how this then led me to look for a trainee position. - What advice...
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