25/09/2025
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From sitting in class at high school up until this very moment I have always been the plant girl! ๐ฟ None of my friends were interested in Horticulture, but I still took the class. I took in every ounce of information I could and got top of my class every year! What a plant nerd huh! ๐คI was one of the lucky ones that always knew what I wanted to do when I left school. Work outdoors with plants of course! ๐So that's what I did. I left town to get my certificate in Horticulture and started volunteering at a Garden Centre. They decided to give me part time work, that led to full time. I worked my way up, right up until I managed a whole garden centre myself!๐ฉโ๐ผ I've also had gardening jobs that have grown my hands on skill set to compliment my plant knowledge. I have worked on gardens that are over 30 years old doing advanced topiary work and hedges kilometers long! ๐ฒI've pruned 100s of roses in council gardens, planted thousands of seedlings and shrubs, and done my fair share of planting native trees to restore the land. I also had my own area of a retirement village, where I could maintain beautiful cottage gardens as if they were my own. Now that was fun! ๐ธNow I'm back in Te Puke where it all started and ready to spruce up the place one garden at a time. ๐ฉโ๐พ