21/09/2022
Fully insured (up to 1 million pounds)
Apprentice trained.
Experience and qualifications include..
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* Alot of lanscape volunteer work for British Trust for Conservation Volunteers based from Hollybush Farm in my youth back in 1994 & 95.
This experience got me into gardening and landscaping.
Building various types of fences, dry stone walling and other various landscaping work.
*NVQ level 1 (Amenity horticulture) Whilst working at The Hollies park in Headingley maintaining the park.
I worked with an extremely knowledgeable craft gardener who had maintained the park for years and knew Latin like a second language.
I soon gained a good knowledge of advanced gardening techniques fairly quickly here.
*Worked for LCC parks dept at CC8 based at Potternewton Park maintaining alot of Chapel Allerton, Moortown and Roundhays public spaces.
Include general shrub pruning, marking football and rugby pitches, maintaining various school garden areas and park maintenance, ride on mower work.
*Advanced Modern Apprenticeship with LCC parks dept building the entire Alhambra palace and Monet gardens opposite Roundhay Park in Leeds.
Myself & 2 other apprentices (the first they'd had in 25yrs) built the whole garden. Work here included lots structural woodwork construction, fence building, block paving, stone work, brick work and alot of effort.
*NVQ level 2 and 3 in Hard landscaping.
*Pa1 & Pa6a chemical usage license.
*Trained in using most types of horticultural machinary including dumpers, ride on rollers and others, abrasive wheels ticket for STHL saws and bench saws, Hydralic breaker, experience on various ride on mowers.
*Trained to use CAT Scan and Genney to locate underground pipes or cables.
*Built LCC parks dept entry at Chelsea flower show in 2000 of a Japanese cottage garden (won Silver guilt medal)
*Assisted LCC parks dept training dept training new gardeners in gardening techniques and use of certain machinery to help them achieve various qualifications.
*Ran Bramley Park for several yrs including all maintenance of the then Rose garden, All beds, playground, tennis courts, bowling green maintenance.
*Moved to Special works team based out of Horsforth Hall Park. A team of mainly craft gardeners building various projects all over West Leeds including fence repair and construction, lots of stone work, wet and dry stone walling, lots of wood work and tar maccing at various parks, repaired and rebuilt the whole Japanese garden at Horsforth Hall Park.
Now I work for myself and enjoy sprucing up overgrown gardens back to their former glory and beyond with improvements if the client wishes.
My experience defines how I work.
I have maintained alot of different parks and schools over the city.
Performed heavy landscaping work all over West Yorkshire, so I'm used to sprucing up very overgrown areas in appalling conditions..lol
Can use alot of garden machinery.
Have a wealth of experience maintaining large park areas.
And have built acclaimed giant palace gardens from muddy bogs to fully working tourist attractions.
So have lots of building experience too.
In my short but colourful life, I've also moved home around 9 or 10 times.
So am also quite handy at decorating and wallpaper hanging too. 😅
