A GARDENING company set up in the property once owned by a leading horticulturalist has celebrated the first anniversary of a new arm of the business.
Family-run Bosbigal Garden Services and Landscape Supplies in Carnon Downs and Devoran was set up by Malcolm Read, building on his family’s interest in gardening.
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The Bosbigal Garden Services and Landscape Supplies team based in Carnon Downs and Devoran.
Living in the Bosbigal bungalow once owned by Fred Shepherd, a leading horticulturalist and former director of Rosewarne Experimental Station, now Duchy College at Rosewarne, was an added inspiration.
Mr Shepherd wrote books for the Royal Horticultural Society and, with Falmouth grower Ron Scamp, produced a daffodil along which was named Bosbigal.
Mr Read said: “When we set up the business there was little doubt that we had to name it after the house we were now living in and in the design of our logo we incorporated the colours of the Bosbigal daffodil, orange and yellow.”
After training at Duchy College in garden design Mr Read started the business in February 2005, later expanding into landscaping.
Last June the business expanded further into landscape supplies, based at North Grange Industrial Estate, Devoran.
Mr Read said: “The first year has gone well in a difficult climate and the real issue is knowing exactly where we are located.”
After starting with the help of funding, the business now employs seven people, four of whom are family members. Two staff were taken on as apprentices.
And when not working on other people’s gardens the family turn their attention to their own, hoping to restore Mr Shepherd’s former home to its 1970s glory and eventually re-open the gardens as part of the National Garden Scheme.
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