Garden Thyme

This is the bit where gardeners tell you that their job is a lifelong passion, or even in their bloodstream as a result of a green-fingered gene. But it's not true in my case. I was a staff news reporter for 19 years before starting Gardenthyme in early 2014. Gardening suddenly wrapped its tendrils round me when my wife and I moved into our first house, a small terraced property in Wolverhampton, in 2000. I was keen to learn, and eager to do something interesting and creative with the patches of land in front of and behind my home, both of the areas empty-ish canvases to start off with.