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How do I get into it?

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cambourne7:
Hi

Good luck, You could try contacting one of the landscaping companys have a look and see if any have had chealsea flower show....

http://www.upmystreet.com/UK/findmynearest/home-and-garden/gardens/garden-centres-and-nurseries/results/in/Leeds-4292.html

Have a look at nurserys -you can work your way up and perhapse they can train you up as a plantsman.

Target ones with national collections.

You might also want to apply for the job at the RHS

http://www.rhs.org.uk/about/vacancies.asp#GardenerSeedDept

OK you dont have the qualification but you have practical experiance with the allotment!!

Other alternative is to plant next year to obtain lots of seeds and sell on ebay :-)

cambourne7

saddad:
Good set of GCSE's there Wahaj.... I'd be happy with them mine are much more C heavy..
 ::)

wahaj:

--- Quote from: cambourne7 on November 09, 2006, 22:56:22 ---Hi

Good luck, You could try contacting one of the landscaping companys have a look and see if any have had chealsea flower show....

http://www.upmystreet.com/UK/findmynearest/home-and-garden/gardens/garden-centres-and-nurseries/results/in/Leeds-4292.html

Have a look at nurserys -you can work your way up and perhapse they can train you up as a plantsman.

Target ones with national collections.

You might also want to apply for the job at the RHS

http://www.rhs.org.uk/about/vacancies.asp#GardenerSeedDept

OK you dont have the qualification but you have practical experiance with the allotment!!

Other alternative is to plant next year to obtain lots of seeds and sell on ebay :-)

cambourne7


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thanks for the links and stuff. I've rung round all the garden cantres and nurseries today that i can possibly get to.....and no one has anything. i then tried to explain to them that i'll take any work...and i'm looking to get into all this and i'm very interested and that i'm looking to do a course in this and stuff.....but some of them didn't even know what RHS was. that's slightly worrying i guess.

i looked at the RHS jobs. I'd love to be able to do some of them. but to be honest....there's no way on earth i could afford to commute down there every day.....or even move down there.

wahaj:

--- Quote from: saddad on November 10, 2006, 19:20:10 ---Good set of GCSE's there Wahaj.... I'd be happy with them mine are much more C heavy..
 ::)

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thanks.

but GCSEs dont mean anything anymore. No one even bothers looking what you got in them.....if you have a levels....it's something they look at...but even they don't take people seriously till they've got some proper qualification.

saddad:
I'm in the teaching profession and held to be something of a pariah for stating the obvious that exams are just a selection hurdle... nobody cares what you got at the previous level....
  :-X

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