Where did it all begin for you, Martin?
It’s a bit of a cliché but it started in my Grandma Smith’s garden when I was a young child. She was a proper country woman and she loved to potter around growing flowers in her cottage garden. I remember spending lots of time with her and my uncle who grew vegetables and kept hens. We also used to go on long walks and she taught me about nature and wild flowers.
That led on to me getting a part time job when I was 13 on a small nursery in the village, which confirmed that I wanted to grow plants and be a gardener. I left school at 16 and got an apprenticeship on the Newark parks department, which started my career in horticulture and the rest, as
