Manager and Horticulturist at Listowel Garden Centre

Kerry Brassil, Manager and Horticulturist at Listowel Garden Centre.

I always felt I wanted to work outdoors, so I studied Horticulture in the National Botanical Gardens and after I graduated, I started working in Listowel Garden Centre and then I took up my managerial position with Listowel Garden Centre in 1999.

Nick Roberts, Owner at Listowel Garden Centre has always said I have been the driving force behind the growth of the business which accumulated in April of 2015 in the building extension and redevelopment of the business, which I project managed as we were becoming a destination and things were growing in the right direction.

During Covid we had to adapt, and I began to record videos for our customers and posted them through our social media channels and still go live regularly to chat about all things in season.

Because the main gardening months are short lived to counteract this, we introduced a Christmas Shop and celebrated its 20th year this Christmas gone, every year the build-up and opening of this gets bigger and better.