Peter Dowdall: Where does a love of gardening come from?

Peter Dowdall pays tribute to the teacher who inspired his love of gardening

Where does a love of gardening come from? I suppose what you like as a child and the interests which you develop are very much dependent on what you are exposed to and how those interests are nurtured.

I was extremely lucky as growing up we had a beautiful and large garden in which to play, learn and spend our childhoods. Developing a fascination with the outside world seemed inevitable.