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John Bosworth catches his paperboy one morning and tells him that it is time to start a proper job.  Rob Jarrett begins as a Saturday lad.  Rob is now our Main Landscaper, having learned a lot of his skills from John.  Rob and his colleagues are now constructing award winning gardens to very high standards.

Sam returns from college and on Boxing Day takes a sledgehammer to one of his Dad’s cold frames adjacent to the bungalow.  John was not amused.  Jill was excited about the retail opportunities.

Sam is on his placement year in Littlehampton, working on a Nursery and Garden Centre operation.

The first “housing market crash” means that all plans to move are put on hold as the value had fallen out of the residential land market.

Planning consent is sought and granted on a piece of land adjacent to Hilltop, Little  Harrowden, as a site to relocate the nursery to.

A second planning application is made, this time without the co-operative land, and the scheme is passed in February.

A planning application is made to Kettering Borough Council for residential development on land currently occupied by The Rushes, Riverview, The Garden Centre and Hollow Wood Road.  The application is refused.

Adele Shelford begins to work at the Nursery as a Saturday girl.  Adele is now our Plant Manager, looking after the Garden Centre Plant area and the Nursery and is widely respected for maintaining one of the best Plant areas in the region.

Sam Bosworth goes to Writtle College in Chelmsford to study Commercial Horticulture