There needs to be a huge focus on inspiring the next generation to get into horticulture. I met RHS Young Designer 2018 Will Williams in RHS Wisley to talk about young people in horticulture and to also highlight the Young Designer Competition – the deadline is November 2018! If you are under 28 and really want to begin your journey with garden design, then this is what you should definitely look at: https://www.rhs.org.uk/TattonParkGardenApplications This competition runs annually so you can bear this in mind for the future. You will get a dedicated mentor and support through the whole process so it is a fantastic experience and opportunity. As Will said, just go for it, there is nothing to lose and everything to gain.
The Royal Horticultural Society was founded in 1804, and their core objective is to be the world’s leading gardening charity by inspiring passion and excellence in the science, art and practice of horticulture. Find out more here: https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs
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Great interview Huw! I love the garden b-roll shots 🙂
what are the red flowers at 7:07??????????????
Quality video and editing Huw! Only audio could be better.
and is old and drinks tea all the time….. OUCH !!!
Great video Huw….Good luck to you and to young Wil
What's the name of the tree that appear in minute 5:22 ?!
Great interview Huw, and fab that its all about younger folks joining into our creative past time. Brilliant 🙂
This was very entertaining to watch, and very professionally put together, its very good to see you channel evolve and improve
Huw, you had me at "there needs to be a huge focus on inspiring the next generation to get into horticulture" in your video description. Absolutely spot on, I wish all the very best for Will WIlliams – all power to your spade lad.
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Wow " Horticulture " I just know this word from your channel.
Art and design of a garden. I love it.
Interesting, In 1971 I began a 4 year Apprenticeship as an Apprentice Gardener under the Auspices of the City of Glasgow.
Working in quite different Parks or old Estates (Large Estates gifted to the City of Glasgow)
It was something that I had not even considered previously but loving the outdoors I decided to give it a go as one of my pals through school had been excepted and I thought well I will give it a go.
Back then we worked a couple of days in a Park under supervision of a Head Gardener and 2 days at the Horticultural College Studying for City & Guilds Stage 1 & 2.
Everything was about learning different Gardening methods and about every 6 months we would be transferred from one Park to another.
I certainly didn't take this job for the money as First year Apprentices were only making £7.00 a week and I think the previous year they were making $4.00 a week cash in a brown envelope.
To be honest we were hardly making enough by the second year to pay my bus fare as I had now been transferred to Glasgow Botanic Gardens which was in Glasgows West end and i lived at that time right on the Glasgow boundary in the South side(Shawlands area)
I absolutely loved my job in the Botanic Gardens, especially in the Greenhouses (The front range, Palm house, Cactii & Succulents etc) or working in the propagation pits and interacting with the public as there were always a million questions.
I worked the last 2 years in the Botanics and I think I would have had a job for life there as I was always eager to learn or to show new Apprentices the ropes including the new Foreman.
By this time I was engaged to a lassie whose father had died and her mother was wanting to emigrate to Canada to be with her son, 2 daughters and their families but she wouldn't go unless her youngest daughter would emigrate as well.
My GF didn't want to go to Canada unless I went too and to be honest I hated the thought about leaving the Botanics, some of the best people I had/have ever worked with to go to a country I had never been to, new very little about and I had never even been on an aeroplane before.
March 1976 I landed in Toronto, Ontario 3 months after my Fiance and her mum not knowing anyone in Canada I was very, very nervous.
Within a few days i had a managers job for a greenhouse nursery that grew tropical plants in Hydroponics and the staff were all italian and most never spoke English or at least that's what they wanted me to believe.
Because I had applied for quite a few jobs another job came up for a Landscape Gardener within walking distance where the Managers job i needed a car and at that point i couldn't drive lol
The Landscape Gardeners jobs was probably the heaviest, hardest and dirtiest jobs i had ever done making $5.50 an hour with more over time than i wanted putting in swimming pools, huge patios and I had never pushed wheelbarrows full of concrete in my life.
I had blisters on blisters, all the hair and skin was worn of the top of my thighs lifting and laying patio stones…. this is a hard life here in Canada so far.
Within a few months a Craftsman Gardener came up with the City of Brampton and now I had a road crew and responsible for the upkeep of parks, parkettes in one half of the city. The 2 crews would join for planting thousands of trees spring and Autumn in parks, boulevards and subdivisions…. this was the late 1970's tough times were hitting Britain, coal mines closing down, national strikes and Maggie Thatcher and we had PM Pierre Trudeau and the house we had bought a few years ago now the interest rates hit 17% people were giving the keys back to the banks as they couldn't afford huge mortgage rates.
We managed to hang on to ours but what had I done leaving that fantastic job in the Botanics to work my arse off…
1982 Britain sails off to retake the Falklands.
Thanks for listening… sorry it was so long.