As a professional gardener, Dean Bolton-Grant has worked in some very fancy locations. After starting his career at Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, he went on to work for Danish royalty, before managing the grounds of properties belonging to the prime minister and president of Malta. In the past couple of years, he’s set up his own gardening school based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, and very recently he returned to Malta as horticultural consultant and garden designer for the 18th-century Palazzo Parisio. Here he shares his tips for the green-fingered among us and reveals what people get wrong about gardening.
Have you always had green fingers?
I think I have. I started off being in the garden, getting my hands dirty in the soil. My parents and grandparents have owned landscaping companies, so they’ve always worked outdoors. And my great, great uncle was a market gardener.
