The historic gardens at Aberglasney have a brand new head gardener, as James Latham has joined the crew on the Carmarthenshire Grade II-listed mansion.
The individuality of Aberglasney Gardens, coupled with the historical past that surrounds them, has at all times fascinated James, ever since his mom moved to Carmarthenshire over 20 years in the past.
Initially from Salisbury, James graduated from Sparsholt School in Winchester with a HND in horticulture.
His profession has seen his transfer across the south of England, from Dorset to Herefordshire.
James’ preliminary plans for Aberglasney are to consolidate, refine and fine-tune the prevailing planting and to ascertain, in addition to construct on, the superb work of the earlier Head Gardener.
“I’m trying to tremendously develop on the plant assortment right here at Aberglasney and maintain a give attention to constructing winter curiosity within the Gardens to take care of all year-round enchantment,” James stated.
“Sure areas, particularly the perennial borders, will probably be refreshed and revamped by the backyard crew over the approaching 12 months and I’ll look to additional develop the planting within the Woodland Backyard.”
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James has held a lot of head gardener positions. For 12 years he was head gardener at Hurdcott home in Wiltshire.
He labored alongside seven-time Chelsea Gold Medal designer, Julie Toll, when he was head gardener at The Manor Home, Ayot St Lawrence and he restored a big woodland backyard, initially planted by Sir Anthony Eden when he was head gardener at Knoyle Place, Wiltshire.
Jim Stribling, director of operations at Aberglasney Gardens, stated, “We’re delighted to welcome James to the crew. His earlier expertise means he will probably be an enormous asset to the long run growth of Aberglasney.
“I’d urge guests to take the chance to introduce yourselves to James as we’re all very excited once we hearken to his concepts and future plans to reinforce the Gardens.”
James recognises that coaching is a giant a part of what goes on at Aberglasney and along with his Senior Horticulturalist, Dave Hand, they need to replace and improve the gardens’ coaching programme, notably for college students on the Aberglasney Bursary Scheme.
He additionally needs to construct a sense of inclusiveness throughout the entire backyard crew, together with the military of volunteer gardeners.
