>> Well, actually, I've been in this area all my life, because my father is a botanist.
And my mother was an avid gardener, and my grandparents gardened.
So, as you can probably hear, I grew up in England.
And so, you know, there's a cliche that we do -- a lot of us do garden over there.
And the climate is more, you know, it's more easy to, you know, to garden there as well.
When it was time to go to University, then I studied Biology first.
And then I got my post graduate degree as -- for teaching, and I became a teacher.
And then my -- I met my American husband, moved to this country.
And then went back to school to Temple, and got my Temple degree.
So -- in horticulture -- and just carried on from there.
And I've always loved horticulture.
I've always grown plants and been an avid gardener.
So, it was just really another step along that way.