The push towards university education has been to the detriment of practical skills, she says, and country house owners have told her there will soon be no skilled gardeners to tend their gardens that are open to the public.
Mr. Bichir plays Carlos Galindo, a semi-skilled gardener who must take whatever work and wages he can get.
To accuse you of "stealing" seems a little overamplified; the nature of this act actually seems closer to mild vandalism (although if your wife is truly as skilled a gardener as you imply, there would have been no significant trauma to the plant).
Mr. Turbridge says there is a definite need for skilled professional gardeners with enough knowledge to cope with the "higher end of horticulture".
She was a skilled cook and gardener.
He was a skilled fisherman and gardener, an extension of a childhood spent on the hills and shores of Zanzibar.
In a much-discussed television commercial, he showed a video clip of Mr. Fox speaking in English during a visit to the United States, describing a program he set up in Guanajuato to train gardeners for skilled jobs in the United States.
Many foreign teachers and doctors take lower-skilled jobs as gardeners or waiters.
For example, in Britain, over 30percentt of health professionals (doctors and dentists) are immigrants, compared with around 5percentt of those in skilled agricultural trades (farmers and gardeners).
At least one gardener should be a skilled propagator or nurseryman.
On the evidence of the works on view at the Museum of Art and Design's "Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities" show, they can also be skilled carpenters, brilliant architects, and meticulous gardeners.
