Career
In October 2011, Toby launched an online plant nursery, Toby Buckland Nurseries, based at Powderham Castle in Devon. Born in Exeter, Devon, Toby was brought up in the coastal towns of Dawlish and Kingswear. He trained as a nurseryman at Blyth"s Devon Nursery and later Whetman"s in Devon before studying horticulture, first at Bicton College, Budleigh Salterton, Devon and later Hadlow College of Horticulture and Agriculture, Hadlow, Kent where he trained in Landscape and Amenity management.
During that time he spent a year as a horticultural trainee at the University of Cambridge Botanic Garden as a woodland supervisor.
He also worked as a gardener for the author Tom Sharpe and built a garden for the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion. Toby is married to Lisa, a gardening writer, and has three children, Henry, Eddie and Emma.
They live in Dawlish where he gardens on a sloping site the size of two tennis courts and has an allotment nearby. Toby has now opened a nursery at Powderham Castle, located in Devon.
Toby has supported a variety of charities including Perennial, Greenfingers, Thrive and Hospiscare.
He has recently designed a memorial garden for 45 Commando Royal Marines.
