a ton of community colleges, Eastern Washington University for undergrad degree (Biology B.S. with Botany concentration), University of Washington, Master's in Environmental Science, Public Horticulture. I considered veterinary medicine or at least becoming a vet technician, but instead focused more on learning plant taxonomy once I got to college. I was interested in becoming a curator at a botanical garden or arboretum, but also was interested in working with zoo collections, especially birds. So now I work at a non-profit parrot sanctuary, but I have done landscaping and created several gardens there in my spare time.
One garden I'm concentrating on is a fruit garden to supplement the parrots' diets seasonally...I am interested in growing unusual edible fruits such as jujubes, persimmons, pomegranates, elderberries, pineapple guavas, blueberries in containers, loquats, che fruit, jelly palms, mayhaws, honeyberries, etc. Also planting a bunch of hybrid Prunus in my backyard this spring and hopefully learning to install drip irrigation finally.