Experience

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  Botany 2000, Inc.

  • Carrollton and Addison, Texas, USA

  • President / Founder

    • Jan 1982 - Present
    • Carrollton and Addison, Texas, USA

    • Managing the day-to-day affairs of our Interior-Plantscape Company embraces a whole host of important skills, that centers around the weekly servicing of thousands of indoor tropical plants, and containerized exterior plants, for our commercial, Institutional and upscale residential custome...

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  Lambert Landscape Company (Known today as Lambe...

  • Dallas, Texas, USA

  • Interior-Plantscape Manager

    • Jun 1976 - Dec 1981
    • Dallas, Texas, USA

    Scope of work for the first three months included landscape maintenance, landscape construction and tree-surgery at various commercial and residential properties around the Dallas-Fort Worth area.Manager of the Interior Plantscape Department handling over one hundred commercial and residential pr...

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  Merrist Wood College

  • Worplesdon, Surrey, United Kingdom

  • Horticultural Technician (Staff Member)

    • Jul 1968 - Sep 1971
    • Worplesdon, Surrey, United Kingdom

    Responsibilities included: Assist the lecturers in classroom, field operations and remote sites operations.Collect living plant specimens and conduct plant identification tests for the students.Examination invigilation. Workshops and practical demonstrations.Maintenance of nursery stock producti...

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  Wirral Urban District Council

  • Heswall, United Kingdom

  • Staff Member, Parks and Recreation Dept.

    • Apr 1964 - Aug 1967
    • Heswall, United Kingdom

    Complete horticultural services of areas overseen by the Parks and Recreation Department; grounds of the headquarters, tennis courts, bowling greens, putting greens, playing fields, sports fields, decorative and floral plantings in the parklands and city streets and roundabouts, arboricultural an...

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  Joseph W. Stathers & Sons

  • Aston, Cheshire, England, U.K.

  • Horticulturalist

    • Aug 1961 - Jan 1963
    • Aston, Cheshire, England, U.K.

    This facility was modeled as a nursery / market garden on the estate of the Squire of Aston. My responsibilities embraced a wide range of horticultural crop production methods that included cut flowers for the retail shop and crops sent to market. Fruits, vegetables. everlasting flowers, salad cr...

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  Silverdale Nurseries

  • Birkenhead, England, U.K.

  • Horticultural Trainee

    • Aug 1958 - Jul 1961
    • Birkenhead, England, U.K.

    This is where I began my career as a professional horticulturalist. I was exposed to a wide range of horticultural practices and principles that have continued to serve me well to this day. This nursery grew a large variety of flowering crops in support of its high-class retail florist shop. My e...