Posted: 12/06/2012 at 13:58
I hate to shatter allusions but am puzzled as to why you want to enter a notoriously low paid profession if you have over overheads that wont be met-as to a PA to a garden designer such jobs are few and far between and probably only the really top people need a PA
To me you have two choices stick with what you are doing now or bite the bullet and go down the horticultural role-talk to the rhs about career advice
http://www.rhs.org.uk/Courses/Careers
Sorry if all this sounds brutal and is not what you wanted to hear but at the present moment in the uk recession, job shortage situation, it is going to be a struggle.