About us

About Dan Ori:

Plants and gardening have been Dan’s passion and calling for over 28 years, with his first paid gardening work for family and neighbours at the age of 15. Dan has worked as a tree surgeon, soft landscaper, hard landscaper with design, a general gardener in all types of domestic gardens and in commercial settings, estate gardener, head gardener, plant specialist, horticultural manager, garden centre duty manager, regional horticultural trouble-shooter, garden & DIY centre manager, retail plant buyer, trade only plant seller, nurseryman, online plant sales administrator, neuro-diverse and dementia gardening instructor, gardening class instructor, association chairman and chief horticultural expert.

Dan has worked as an arborist, ranger and forester looking after thousands of trees in the streets, parks and woodlands of East Sussex.

Gardens Dan has worked at include Bolney Manor and Estate, Sheffield Park, Walstead Place and Deans Place Hotel. Commercially, his experience includes Wyevale Garden Centres, Stone Cross Nurseries and Millbrook Garden Centre. 

Dan is qualified in Horticulture, Arboriculture and Forestry, and is currently part of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Masters of Horticulture programme. Dan is a certified instructor for the Square Foot Gardening Foundation. 

Through his non-profit organisation, GIA (Gardening In Action) CIC, Dan has helped and supported numerous voluntary groups and community gardens, primarily in East Sussex. Dan has set up and runs a community garden in Seaford (in partnership with Roots Rising CIC), is a trustee of a local nature space, is a partner for Seaford and Falmer station gardens and runs an inclusive horticultural ‘into work’ programme.

Dan is a fact-checker and reviewer for numerous online and print publications, including Horticulture Magazine.

Registered Details:

GIA (GARDENING IN ACTION) CIC is registered by guarantee (not shares) with Companies House, Cardiff. Our Company Number is 13984105; this gives us nonprofit status as Directors cannot draw dividends/funds from the CIC.