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What is a Career in Gardening?

I am very curious about a Career in Gardening. I want to first understand What a Career in Gardening entails before I invest time and effort to figure out How to start a Career in Gardening. In my quest to learn more about a Career in Gardening, I found this amazing page: https://www.lifepage.in/career/20170928-0006/Others/Skill Based/Career-in-Gardening/english

Bhavishya Dua's professional point of view! Bhavishya Dua invested 8 years in Gardening. Bhavishya Dua has worked in Gardening as Gardener in Serendipity Nursery. In Bhavishya Dua's own words, this is how Bhavishya Dua got into Gardening: "After doing my schooling from Hartmann College, I attained a degree in Hotel Management from The Welcome Group Graduate School of Hotel Administration Manipal, thereafter attended Le Cordon Bleu, London on a Scholarship. I have held several jobs in renowned restaurants across the world. I started gardening once I moved back to my home town, Dehradun. It was unplanned and I had never studied gardening. It was a matter of accident or chance but I am extremely passionate about it. It has now been over 7 years that I have been running my own Botanical Nursery by the name of Serendipity, Dehradun." 
Career Video on Gardening In a video, Bhavishya Dua has talked about various aspects of a Career in Gardening. Bhavishya Dua started by explaining Gardening as: "Gardening is the practice of growing and cultivating plants as part of horticulture. In gardens, ornamental plants are often grown for their flowers, foliage or overall appearance, also useful plants, such as root vegetables, leaf vegetables, fruits, and herbs, are grown for consumption, for use as dyes, or for medicinal or cosmetic use." The video was an engaging disposition.
It is easy to Google information about what Qualifications are needed to enter Gardening, this video went a step ahead to talk about the body of knowledge one needs to develop to excel at Gardening. Bhavishya Dua touches upon these in the Education section of the Video:
  • Science
  • Nature
  • Arts

90% success in real life depends on Skills. It is crucial to understand these.
Bhavishya Dua then explains why these Skills are essential for a Career in Gardening:

  • Patience
  • Eye for Detail
  • Innovative

Positives of any Career motivate one to work hard for the same.
Bhavishya Dua believes that the following are some of the Positives of a Career in Gardening:

  • Satisfaction
  • Close to Nature
  • Your Own Boss
  • Good Earning

Challenges are the other side of Positives and this Career is no exception.
And, Bhavishya Dua believes that one needs to prepare for following Challenges of a Career in Gardening:

  • Laborious
  • Environmental Challenges
  • Things Move Slowly


In the final section of the video Bhavishya Dua talks about How a day goes in a Career in Gardening. This video is by far the best video on a Career in Gardening, that I have ever come across. To see the full Talk, one needs to install the LifePage Career Talks App. Here is a direct deep link of the Video: https://lifepage.app.link/20170928-0006

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Having gained so much from a professional perspective on a Career in Gardening, I wanted to learn about other Careers on LifePage. LifePage has created the largest knowledge repository of Careers in the whole world. I salute the efforts of Team LifePage. I also encourage you to learn more about LifePage on: https://www.lifepage.in
 

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