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January 16, 2017

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Horti Hugo: I'm passionate about plants and gardening. Yes, it's as simple as that. Since my mid-teens, when I first encountered horticulture through working in a nursery, which was open to the public, I was bitten by the gardening bug. Looking, listening & learning. Absorbing all that I could about plants, their native habitats, growing conditions, how to grow them, what to do with them, etc.

And loving it.

So many people would come in to ask questions and talk plants and gardening, and I would regularly hear them say you are so lucky working at what your passionate about. More than a few times older retired people would say 'I worked for 40 years behind a desk, and all I got was this lousy watch. If I could do it again, I would work at what I love'.

I spent ten years there, working with a great team of people, whom even now, almost twenty years on, I still am in contact with. At the time many people didn't really understand the word 'horticulture' - 'is that something to do with agriculture?' they would ask ... Lol

In these intervening years my professional career has been varied, mostly moving away from the horticultural industry (I still taught evening gardening classes), and I found myself at one point sitting behind a desk!

So, over the past 5 years I've been a lot more involved again, whether this is giving talks on plants & gardens, blogging, weekend work in local garden centres, blogging on social media, etc.

Being involved. And passionate about it!

http://hughcassidy.blogspot.ie/

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