Why Start A Gardening Business?

1. Gardening Is Big Business

Some facts and figures. Gardening has become big business. It’s estimated that £5 billion is spent annually on gardens in the United Kingdom and this figure is expected to grow every year.

In recent years, gardening has undergone a radical makeover, especially when it comes to the way it is portrayed on our televisions screens. TV gardeners are now enjoying the sort of celebrity status that was previously reserved only for pop stars.

Gone is the image of the traditional flat-capped gardener who advised caution when deciding when to plant runner beans and leeks. Instead, gardening presenters now talk of wonderfully exotic plants with names that intoxicate and aromas that uplift our spirits and carry us off to far flung shores.

Our screens play host to lots of imaginative, bold, talented gardeners and garden designers who have managed to breathe a new life into something that was previously viewed by many as boring.

Today, it seems that almost everyone has an interest in gardening. Even if all you have is a window box hanging optimistically outside your flat, you can find a magazine feature or a television programme that inspires you to create something truly beautiful.

No longer are our homes confined to four brick walls. Now we have outside rooms in our gardens, places where we can relax away the stresses of hectic lifestyles, spaces that we can call our own and make as individual as we are by choosing planting schemes that were previously unheard of. Unimaginatively long, tedious borders have been replaced with waltzing edges and paths that lead to hidden water features, arbours, pergolas, secret gardens and places that are truly magical.

This is gardening at its best.

Yet despite our enthusiasm for having and enjoying these gardens a surprising 76% of the population see gardening as a chore. This represents enormous potential for anyone who likes gardening to make a successful business from it.

The Freedom Of Running Your Own Business

Most of us live our lives around our jobs. Everything from the schools we choose for our children to where we holiday every year revolves around our work. Much as we would like to deny it, we are slaves to our occupations: jobs that very often offer little in terms of satisfaction and flexibility.

Many of us dream of setting up our own business, but are daunted by the prospect of being solely responsible for generating our own income.

• How will we cope?
• Who will pay those bills that fall with unfailing regularity on our doormats every week, every month?
• How do we start a business with nothing? Surely any successful venture will need oodles of capital, money that we just haven’t got?

 

Sadly our enthusiasm for breaking out and doing our own thing is overtaken by fear and uncertainty for our futures. The only decision we’re capable of making is to do nothing, to stay as we are: suffering poor working conditions, intolerable commutes, cancelled trains, endless targets and a job that leaves us exhausted and stressed. Why? Because we crave the security that a regular monthly salary brings, and the peace of mind that we’ll able to pay our bills month in, year out until we retire.

Why I Started My Own Gardening Business

This Is A Business Where Everything Is Possible

If the only gardening skill you have is to be able to cut a lawn, but cut it well and take pride in your work, then you have the basis on which to build a successful business. But if you are a keen gardener, skilled, knowledgeable, a master of your craft, then the world outside your door really is waiting for your services. For skilled gardeners are rarities. Sadly, while we now have an abundance of plants and shrubs that were previously unheard of, those willing and capable of looking after them are not so readily available.

There will always be a need for professional gardeners in this country. Whether this is to design, create, build, maintain, prune, advise, or coach novice gardeners in the craft of gardening, there is literally no limit to where this business can take you.

From now on you can enjoy the freedom of working for yourself while enjoying the great outdoors and doing something that is both worthwhile and highly sought after.