![]() ![]() It captured everything we grew up with in the seventies - peace, mellowness, flower power and great acoustic music. I really feel like I’m part of this lovely, friendly industry, from both the plant supplier’s and the media’s side, and that makes me very happy.One of the best memories of my childhood. I’ve been to a lot of press shows, I work and have worked with a lot of suppliers and I constantly see people I know in magazines and at gardening events. I’ve been involved in this industry for a good while now. Every single one of my jobs has taught me so much and I think I’ve found my niche – I’m a Gardener, Copy Writer, Garden Marketer, Feature Writer and Online Content Manager! I currently work as freelance gardener and garden writer and I’m also a full member of the Garden Media Guild. Since then I’ve worked for more online plant suppliers, plus magazines including Which? Gardening Magazine and BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine. This was my dream job at the time and I felt so lucky, I spent every day writing plant copy and gaining experience and knowledge in marketing and website management – something I’d never even thought about doing in the past. Just as I was wondering how on earth I might get into this (as I was only trained in horticulture), I stumbled upon a Marketing Assistant job with an online and catalogue plant supplier, and they kindly took me in. I went on to do various other gardening jobs for a few more years, before deciding that I would like to write about plants. It was the perfect place for me, as a new gardener, to gain all the experience I might need to see me off into a career in horticulture. ![]() There are amazing gardens locked behind ‘secret garden’ doorways in ancient walls, huge perennial borders to tend to, massive hedges to trim (one is 30ft high) and lawns to mow with precision. That was the best gardening job I’ve ever had, the gardeners were talented and knowledgeable (and fun!), the college was relaxed and the grounds are extensive and beautiful. I started working as a gardener at Trinity College in Cambridge, which is the biggest of Cambridge University’s colleges. I studied Horticulture at Writtle College in Essex back in the early noughties – it was good fun and a great place to learn, and since then I’ve had various lovely jobs. ![]() There are even a few outdoor building thrown in including a shed and a greenhouse! Sunny areas have plants such as seasonal flowers, herbaceous perennials, fruit and veg, and the shady areas have ferns, hostas and Buxus balls. The Westland Magical Garden has different light levels throughout and well-suited plants are used for each. It’s a garden skyscraper showing how people who love plants and gardening make the most of their outdoor space even when it’s limited. This pyramid-shaped garden structure symbolises a gardener’s retreat an allotment in the city, herbacous borders, beds and pots, terraces and balcony gardens. With a large part of his garden last year being suspended by a crane, just as you think it won’t get any more wacky, this year’s design comes along to show that there is no end to these hugely imaginative and ‘magical’ gardens. Making impressive, unusual and even slightly fantasy garden designs is something that comes naturally to Diarmuid Gavin. The Westland Magical Garden, designed by Diarmuid Gavin and sponsored by Westland Horticulture.
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