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I have been interested in history and gardening for as long as I can remember. As a child I was allowed to have a patch of ground to grow whatever I liked. My mother called the plants, ‘Weeds’. I called them wild flowers. I was fascinated by the strange names and the folk tales that such common plants had. I was lucky to attend a village school that had books about King Arthur, Greek myths and the Vikings. My imagination went into overdrive. I spent my childhood building camps, cooking (well, actually burning food) over open fires, making bows and arrows and using cricket stumps for swords - I still find cricket very boring. I eventually became a qualified gardener and worked my way up to being a Head Gardener. Later I researched medieval gardens and the uses of the plants, which was very useful when I created the medieval gardens at the Prebendal Manor at Nassington, Northamptonshire. I studied for my MA in Garden History at Birkbeck, London whilst I was a full-time college lecturer in Horticulture. Unfortunately due to government guidelines, college courses do not give you much time to teach real gardening anymore. I decided to become self-employed and transformed myself into the Historic Gardener.
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